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• My mother says that when Mrs. Rowley is mean, which is generally the case, it is really because she is just unhappy, and who could blame her with a husband like that . . . She says this is really the only reason people are ever mean--they have something hurting inside of them, a claw of unhappiness scratching at their hearts, and it hurts them so much that sometimes they have to push it right out of their mouths to scratch someone else, just to give themselves a rest, a moment of relief.

  Laura Moriarty

  Mother, Hurt, Husband

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• Podías alejar a la gente, más allá de sus límites, incluso accidentalmente, y luego era demasiado tarde para recuperarlos.

  Laura Moriarty

  Past, People, Too Late

  Laura Moriarty (2013). “The Rest of Her Life”, p.262, Penguin UK

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• I am supposed to be where I go.

  Laura Moriarty

  Supuesto

  Laura Moriarty (2012). “The Chaperone”, p.184, Penguin

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• I'm drawn to intergenerational tension, and it must have been strong in the 1920s: I wondered how Louise's [Brooks] generation of flappers appeared to the women who came of age at the beginning of the century - wearing corsets, long skirts, and high collars.

  Laura Moriarty

  Strong, Long, Age

  Fuente: www.bookbrowse.com

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• This life is mine because of good luck. And because I reached out and took it.

  Laura Moriarty

  Good Luck, Life Is, This Life

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• Worrying was painful .... but compared to the alternative, a privilege

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  Worry, Alternatives, Privilege

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• The young can exasperate, of course, and frighten, and condescend, and insult, and cut you with their still unrounded edges. But they can also drag you, as you protest and scold and try to pull away, right up to the window of the future, and even push you through.

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  Cutting, Trying, Insult

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• I learned a lot of details about 1920s clothes, cars, kitchen appliances, and food. I had a character eating peanut butter in one scene until I learned that peanut butter wasn't commercially packaged and sold until 1924.

  Laura Moriarty

  Character, Clothes, Car

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• This is how it is now. This is my life.

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• It's like swimming, underwater, this whole year. I just close my eyes. hold my breath, and keep kicking.

  Laura Moriarty

  Eye, Swimming, Years

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• Someone needs to give the Pope thirteen babies. Just for a week or so. See how he likes no birth control then.

  Laura Moriarty

  Baby, Giving, Needs

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• Louise Brooks siempre me pareció interesante. Era un icono del cine mudo y sabía que había crecido en Kansas y que era inteligente, rebelde y de lengua afilada.

  Laura Moriarty

  Smart, Silent Films, Icons

  Fuente: www.bookbrowse.com

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• I know that sometimes when you are really worried about something, it ends up not being nearly as bad as you think it will be, and you get to be relieved that you were just being silly, worrying so much over nothing. But sometimes it is just the opposite. It can happen that whatever you are worried about will be even worse than you could have possibly imagined, and you find that you were right to be worried, and even that, maybe, you weren't worried enough.

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  Silly, Thinking, Opposites

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• Maybe children just want whatever it is they don't get. And then they grow up and give their children what they wanted, be it silence or information, affection or independence--so that child, in turn, craves something else. With every generation the pendulum swings from opposite to opposite, stillness and peace so elusive.

  Laura Moriarty

  Children, Growing Up, Swings

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• Las estrellas fugaces no son en realidad estrellas, sino meteoritos que se abren paso a través de nuestra atmósfera, aterrizando a veces en los océanos y en medio de las granjas... Podrías pedirles deseos si quisieras, pero en realidad no son más que trozos de roca que caen del cielo, y podrían aterrizar en tu cabeza y matarte justo cuando levantas la vista para pedir un deseo. En realidad, sólo son rocas. No les importan en absoluto tus deseos.

  Laura Moriarty

  Stars, Ocean, Fall

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• No estaba muy familiarizado con el cine mudo. No sabía, por ejemplo, lo popular que era el cine mudo en los años veinte, que la gente iba al cine varias veces por semana.

  Laura Moriarty

  Silent Films, People, Example

  Fuente: www.bookbrowse.com

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• One way to remain unfinished is to stop. the other is to go on.

  Laura Moriarty

  Goes On, Way, Unfinished

  Laura Moriarty (2000). “Nude Memoir”, Krupskaya

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• Mientras escribía el libro, fui a ver la película más famosa de Louise Brooks, La caja de Pandora, en el Tivoli de Kansas City, y fue una experiencia encantadora. Se pueden ver viejas películas mudas en DVD o incluso en YouTube, pero fue una sensación diferente verla en la gran pantalla, ver la película tal y como la vio la gente hace tantos años.

  Laura Moriarty

  Book, Writing, Dvds

  Fuente: www.bookbrowse.com

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• Yes, Louise Brooks was beautiful and intelligent, and she could be very funny, but obviously there was a deep insecurity there, a real destructive rage and immaturity.

  Laura Moriarty

  Beautiful, Real, Intelligent

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• The thing that got me about the Orphan Trains was that the experiences were so varied. Some of the kids went from neglect and hunger in New York to loving farm families who couldn't wait to fatten them up, who gave them medical care, an education, affection. And some of the kids became the victims of terrible cruelty, and more hunger, and more neglect - it all depended on who adopted them off of the train.

  Laura Moriarty

  New York, Kids, Waiting

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• I don't think I've ever tried on a corset, though a certain bridesmaid's dress did require a torturous bustier that will stay forever burned in my sensory memory.

  Laura Moriarty

  Memories, Thinking, Forever

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