"All innocent mechanisms are muddied up with experience.……" — Sarah Hall
"All innocent mechanisms are muddied up with experience. Children become less and less translucent. Layers of guile and suspicion grow. It's the law of paternal disenchantments."
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9 Quotes by Sarah Hall
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The man had added to his body in a way that was brave and timeless and beyond adornment.
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You didn’t understand what he was saying, until he kissed you. It was a kiss of such complicity, of such…
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Of all the conditions we experience, solitude is perhaps the most misunderstood.
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