Embarrassed Quote by Kelsey Brickl

““She parted her lips as though she were going to scold him, but, after a moment of sitting with her mouth agape like a fish, thought the better of it.””

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“He was an indecent man, I told myself - prayerfully - and then I prayed for him to become decent.”

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“Thus, in the boy’s mind, drink and destruction braided together. Intoxication, he concluded, was a swift and effective catalyst for havoc.”

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“The ground had opened up and spit out hell, Nell thought, and the detritus was Shiloh.”

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“There was no justice in rebellion. This Javert had come to believe after seeing Marseille fall headfirst into the abyss of the revolution.”

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“In August, an inescapable blanket of heat settled over Paducah, the last gasping breath of summer roaring its weight out over the populace.”

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“It wasn’t that Nell was weak. It was that the world was dangerous.”

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