but in her everything lasted. She had all she ever had. Everything she had, the home she and Mark had made, his death, Blake's sharp and passionate love to make her know herself a woman, the children-she had all of it forever, to be the rich experience from which she drew her life, her life which was so much more than her mortal
( Pearl S. Buck )
[ This Proud Heart: A Novel ]
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