But Lucy had been alone too much of her life, and in her loneliness she had constructed a vision of what a perfect relationship would look like. Love, in her imagination, was so dazzling, so tender and unconditional, that anything human seemed impossibly thin by comparison. Lucy's loneliness was breathtaking in its enormity...she was trapped in a room full of mirrors, and every direction she looked in she saw herself, her face, her loneliness. She couldn't see that no one else was perfect either, and that so much of love was the work of it. She had worked on everything else. Love would have to be charmed.
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ANN VOSKAMP Gratitude's not a natural posture. The prince of darkness is ultimately a spoiled ingrate, and I... ANN VOSKAMP My husband is Dutch, and his family, when you sat down to eat food at the table, you never left the ... ANN VOSKAMP Counting one thousand gifts, I discovered I could count on God. ANN VOSKAMP I came into this world the way every person on the planet does - with clenched fists. ANN VOSKAMP Scales always lie. They don't make a scale that ever told the truth about value, about worth, ab... ANN VOSKAMP When we can't bottle our tears up anymore, God catches every one in His bottle. God's catchi... ANN VOSKAMP Romance isn't measured by how viral your proposal goes. The Internet age may try to sell you som... ANN VOSKAMP Really good writing, from my perspective, runs a lot like a visual on the screen. You need to create... ANN VOSKAMP Giving thanks is that: making the canyon of pain into a megaphone to proclaim the ultimate goodness ... 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ANN RICHARDS 'Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell' by Susanna Clarke is a big, thick book. About a thousan... ANN LECKIE I've been in this business for a long time, and I no longer think that anything that I do by way... ANN BEATTIE Katana is a trained, disciplined martial artist. She removes herself from Birds of Prey to go on a p... ANN NOCENTI You didn't have to go on location if you could just shoot down City Hall, LA. ANN ROBINSON We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren'... ANN COULTER