"I wasn't being fair to Annie. She had paid her share of dues, but there were times when you are very alone in the world and your own thoughts flay your skin an inch at a time. This was one of them."
"By all odds he should have been one of those people who live out their lives in a gray and undistinguished way with never a bolder ambition than a joyless marriage and a cost-of-living raise."
Both quotes from Heaven's Prisoners, by James Lee Burke.
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