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There seem to be no way he could stop anything that was happening, although it all felt wrong.

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Once started, love couldn't easily be stopped.

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The years would pass like weeks, and loves would pass too, or else grow sour.

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It doesn't do to sacrifice for people unless they want you to.

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The eastern sky was red as coals in a forge, lighting up the flats along the river. Dew had wet the million needles of the chaparral, and when the rim...more

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It seemed to him there was never much time with women. Before you could look at one twice, you were into an argument, and they were telling you what w...more

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Of all the women he knew, she had meant the most; and was the one person in his life he felt he had missed, in some ways.

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You should marry me", he said. "I will be good to you. I am not like these men. I have manners. You would see how kind I would be. I would never leave...more