What made more sense was that the bargain she was bound to was to go on living as she had been doing. The bargain was already in force. Days and years and feelings much the same, except that the children would grow up, and there might be one or two more of them and they too would grow up, and she and Brendan would grow older and then old.
It was not until now, not until this moment, that she had seen so clearly that she was counting on something happening, something which would change her life. She had accepted her marriage as one big change, but not as the last one.
So, nothing now but what she or anybody else could sensibly foresee. That was to be her happiness, that was what she had bargained for, nothing secret, or strange.
Pay attention to this, she thought. She had a dramatic notion of getting down on her knees. This is serious...
It was a long time ago that this happened. In North Vancouver, when they lived in the Post and Beam house. When she was twenty-four years old and new to bargaining.


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I think fashion can always date, but I think if a woman has elegance, she doesn't date.
ALICE TEMPERLEY
The decisions you make are a choice of values that reflect your life in every way.
ALICE WATERS
When the wind blows through a wood, its mass is cut and closed by every leaf, forming a train of jit...
ALICE OSWALD
I think that I do feel that my nature is to express what this self, this particular self at this tim...
ALICE WALKER
I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire...
ALICE WALKER
It is because I recognize the brutality with which my own multi-branched ancestors have been treated...
ALICE WALKER
After I dropped out of college at the age of 19, I became a mortgage broker, and when I went back to...
ALICE DREGER
After I dropped out of college at the age of 19, I became a mortgage broker, and when I went back to...
ALICE DREGER
Instead of constantly enhancing the norm - forever upping the ante of the 'normal' with new ...
ALICE DREGER
One of the rules of Greek lament poetry is that it mustn't mention the dead by name in case of i...
ALICE OSWALD
The sea has this contradictory quality, that the more you see of it, the more it overwhelms the eye ...
ALICE OSWALD
I think it is more of an intuitive, circular kind of personality, for starters. And, as I say of hor...
ALICE WALTON
It seems our fate to be incorrect (look where we live, for example), and in our incorrectness stand.
ALICE WALKER
I find talking about my work harder than it might be if honesty wasn't my calling card.
ALICE SEBOLD
My father loved 'Godard and Truffaut.' He was more artsy. My mom loved the 'Bourne' ...
ALICE BRAGA
What interests me is whatever it is that allows the heart to continue to yearn for something the int...
ALICE MCDERMOTT
You just let your lower self go, and then it takes on all these aspects of the society - the city wi...
ALICE COOPER
If we want to fight people in the world, we should fight them with pillows - pillows stuffed with fo...
ALICE WALKER
How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house th...
ALICE WALKER
We say we waste time, but that is impossible. We waste ourselves.
ALICE BLOCH
Eclectic yet classic with a playful bohemian twist is how I'd describe my style.
ALICE TEMPERLEY
I am optimistic and confident in all that I do. I affirm only the best for myself and others. I am...
ALICE POTTER
I deliberately went to boarding school. It was my choice. My mum was abroad and I wanted to wean mys...
ALICE ENGLERT
I do a lot of research. For 'I Am Legend', I did a lot of research about survivors. If every...
ALICE BRAGA
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any
ALICE WALKER
Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.
ALICE WALKER
Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make you...
ALICE WALKER
I try to teach my heart not to want things it can't have
ALICE WALKER
Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that tre...
ALICE WALKER
I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some...
ALICE WALKER
It takes a long time to learn that a courtroom is the last place in the world for learning the truth...
ALICE KOLLER
The hippies wanted peace and love. We wanted Ferraris, blondes and switchblades.
ALICE COOPER
In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways,...
ALICE WALKER
I've spoken of the patient Peter who was obsessively forced to make conquests with women, to seduce ...
ALICE MILLER
The sight of a Black nun strikes their sentimentality; and, as I am unalterably rooted in native gro...
ALICE WALKER
She say, Celie, tell the truth, have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch...
ALICE WALKER
The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.
ALICE WALKER
For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that t...
ALICE WALKER
A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of ye...
ALICE MEYNELL
Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can writ...
ALICE WALKER
The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where doe...
ALICE JAMES
It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the childr...
ALICE WALKER
One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any ...
ALICE JAMES
The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.
ALICE MEYNELL
Confidence in a bloke would be arrogance in a woman. For years, I didn't give interviews because...
ALICE LOWE
We have met numerous times as a neighborhood. We are united in our opposition.
ALICE MOORE
These men, whether laicized, defrocked, or restricted from ministry, continue to pose a threat to al...
ALICE MOORE
I thought if someone is willing to donate them, we're willing to take them. It never hurts to ask.
ALICE MOORE
We buy them (books) as our budget allows. But eighth grade has four trade books (individual-title bo...
ALICE MOORE
Having separate proceedings will allow the NRC to fully assess the specific characteristics of each ...
ALICE MOORE
We were very concerned about a monopoly and really focused on opportunities to bring new retailers t...
ALICE MOORE
Our goal here is to provide low prices on high-quality products and excellent services to consumers ...
ALICE MOORE
The goal here is to provide opportunities for new retailers to enter our marketplace.
ALICE MOORE
The capacity of the human organism to bear pain is, for our own protection, limited. All attempts to...
ALICE MILLER
The truth about childhood, as many of us have had to endure it, is inconceivable, scandalous, painfu...
ALICE MILLER
,,,It is possible to resolve childhood repression safely and without confusion - something that has ...
ALICE MILLER