1. Do people always fall in love with things they can't have?''Always,' Carol said, smiling, too.
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2. Happiness was like a green vine spreading through her, stretching fine tendrils, bearing flowers through her flesh.
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3. I know you have it in you, Guy," Anne said suddenly at the end of a silence, "the capacity to be terribly happy.
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4. Finally, Carol said in a tone of hopelessness, "Darling, can I ask you to forgive me?" The tone hurt Therese more than the question. "I love you, Carol." "But do you see what it means?
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5. The moral is: stay alone. Any idea of any close relationship should be imaginary, like any story I am writing. This way no harm is done to me or to any other person.
