"Sorry, I said to myself, wondering how many……" — Ben Marcus
"Sorry, I said to myself, wondering how many times in my marriage I'd said that, how many times I'd meant it, how many times Claire had actually believed it, and, most important, how many times the utterance had any impact whatsoever on our dispute. What a lovely chart one could draw of this word Sorry."
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33 Quotes by Ben Marcus
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