Top 20 Amanda Coplin Quotes (2024 Update)

Amanda Coplin Quote: “The odor of the room was baked fruit, beeswax, pine, and old newspapers.”

1. “The odor of the room was baked fruit, beeswax, pine, and old newspapers.”

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Amanda Coplin Quote: “She was haunted by the possibility that she had missed her chance for happiness. But she had not missed her chance, she told herself, for her chance would not let her get away so easily. Each morning she was fortified by hope: the future loomed.”

2. “She was haunted by the possibility that she had missed her chance for happiness. But she had not missed her chance, she told herself, for her chance would not let her get away so easily. Each morning she was fortified by hope: the future loomed.”

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Amanda Coplin Quote: “But she did not know where the doubt, the fear, began. It had always been there, but she had sought to rearrange it within herself; and in the constant rearrangement was transformation.”

3. “But she did not know where the doubt, the fear, began. It had always been there, but she had sought to rearrange it within herself; and in the constant rearrangement was transformation.”

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Amanda Coplin Quote: “And that was the point of children, thought Caroline Middey: to bind us to the earth and to the present, to distract us from death. A distraction dressed as a blessing: but dressed so well, and so truly, that it became a blessing. Or maybe it was the other way around: a blessing first, before a distraction.”

4. “And that was the point of children, thought Caroline Middey: to bind us to the earth and to the present, to distract us from death. A distraction dressed as a blessing: but dressed so well, and so truly, that it became a blessing. Or maybe it was the other way around: a blessing first, before a distraction.”

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Amanda Coplin Quote: “He did not expect her to be happy – how that word lost meaning as the years progressed – but he only wished her to be unafraid, and able to experience small joys.”

5. “He did not expect her to be happy – how that word lost meaning as the years progressed – but he only wished her to be unafraid, and able to experience small joys.”

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Amanda Coplin Quote: “He had pulled out of that grief, eventually – out from under the suffocating weight of it. Suffering had formed him: made him silent and deliberate, thoughtful: deep.”

6. “He had pulled out of that grief, eventually – out from under the suffocating weight of it. Suffering had formed him: made him silent and deliberate, thoughtful: deep.”

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Amanda Coplin Quote: “We do not belong to ourselves alone, she wanted to say, but there was no one to speak to.”

7. “We do not belong to ourselves alone, she wanted to say, but there was no one to speak to.”

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Amanda Coplin Quote: “She revered solitude, but only because there was the possibility of breaking it.”

8. “She revered solitude, but only because there was the possibility of breaking it.”

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Amanda Coplin Quote: “It was not the presents laid out on the bed, or the airing of, the constant fussing over, his suit. Not the slow, deliberate polishing of his good shoes, and wrapping them, for safety, in a paper bag. She was only a little wary of these things. Suspicious. But what she feared most were his silences. The times when she felt him prepare to speak, but ultimately falter. Turn away. The leagues, which his eyes revealed at times, of what he did not say.”

9. “It was not the presents laid out on the bed, or the airing of, the constant fussing over, his suit. Not the slow, deliberate polishing of his good shoes, and wrapping them, for safety, in a paper bag. She was only a little wary of these things. Suspicious. But what she feared most were his silences. The times when she felt him prepare to speak, but ultimately falter. Turn away. The leagues, which his eyes revealed at times, of what he did not say.”

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Amanda Coplin Quote: “When one is young, he thought, one thinks that one will never know oneself. But the knowledge comes later; if not all, then some. An important amount.”

10. “When one is young, he thought, one thinks that one will never know oneself. But the knowledge comes later; if not all, then some. An important amount.”

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Amanda Coplin Quote: “How like the orchard she was. Because of her slowness and the attitude in which she held herself -seemingly deferent, quiet-it appeared even a harsh word would smite her. But it would not. She was like an egg encased in iron. She was the dream of the place that bore her, and she did not even know it.”

11. “How like the orchard she was. Because of her slowness and the attitude in which she held herself -seemingly deferent, quiet-it appeared even a harsh word would smite her. But it would not. She was like an egg encased in iron. She was the dream of the place that bore her, and she did not even know it.”

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Amanda Coplin Quote: “He protected her, he placed himself between her and the world.”

12. “He protected her, he placed himself between her and the world.”

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Amanda Coplin Quote: “The sound was loud and soft at the same time, like the sound upon which other sound was built. You didn’t hear the horses until you listened for them; and then they were very loud.”

13. “The sound was loud and soft at the same time, like the sound upon which other sound was built. You didn’t hear the horses until you listened for them; and then they were very loud.”

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Amanda Coplin Quote: “He did not go after her himself, but those months after he fell out of the tree, though his physical wounds more or less healed – though he walked with a slight limp afterward – a kind of vacancy, a silence, hung around him, like a mantle on his shoulders.”

14. “He did not go after her himself, but those months after he fell out of the tree, though his physical wounds more or less healed – though he walked with a slight limp afterward – a kind of vacancy, a silence, hung around him, like a mantle on his shoulders.”

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Amanda Coplin Quote: “Objects too at times, after all, like the landscape, held the potential for meaning- she took out the first object now- and were able to comfort.”

15. “Objects too at times, after all, like the landscape, held the potential for meaning- she took out the first object now- and were able to comfort.”

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Amanda Coplin Quote: “Things might get very bad, things might be worse than she ever imagined, but the stars existed, and that was something.”

16. “Things might get very bad, things might be worse than she ever imagined, but the stars existed, and that was something.”

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Amanda Coplin Quote: “What was recognized as success – the applause, the exclamations, the job well done; she was already off the horse, pumping people’s hands in congratulations – did not fill her. Did not even begin to fill her. What she wanted was the despair, or something else that was found there. Something that lived with despair. But the moment she was inside it, she failed to find what it was she wanted so badly. And so she would ride again.”

17. “What was recognized as success – the applause, the exclamations, the job well done; she was already off the horse, pumping people’s hands in congratulations – did not fill her. Did not even begin to fill her. What she wanted was the despair, or something else that was found there. Something that lived with despair. But the moment she was inside it, she failed to find what it was she wanted so badly. And so she would ride again.”

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Amanda Coplin Quote: “The sorrow came from those two feelings – the happiness of company, the anxiety of interrupted solitude.”

18. “The sorrow came from those two feelings – the happiness of company, the anxiety of interrupted solitude.”

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Amanda Coplin Quote: “She was both more assured and quieter, deeper. It was as if the distance she had traveled had ironed out some of her foolish impulsiveness, her flippancy.”

19. “She was both more assured and quieter, deeper. It was as if the distance she had traveled had ironed out some of her foolish impulsiveness, her flippancy.”

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Amanda Coplin Quote: “The narrow bed with its purple, red, and green quilt, the bedside table with its jar of rocks, piled books. The porcelain basin near the window where she washed her face, the pitcher with the brown rose painted on it, the large crack like a vein in the bottom of the basin. The apricot orchard, the buzzing bees like a haze in spring. The barn – the smell of hay and manure, grease, old leather. The sun streaming through the slats. The mule’s nose in her palm.”

20. “The narrow bed with its purple, red, and green quilt, the bedside table with its jar of rocks, piled books. The porcelain basin near the window where she washed her face, the pitcher with the brown rose painted on it, the large crack like a vein in the bottom of the basin. The apricot orchard, the buzzing bees like a haze in spring. The barn – the smell of hay and manure, grease, old leather. The sun streaming through the slats. The mule’s nose in her palm.”

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Amanda Coplin Quote: “How lovely, the portraitist kept saying. How lovely.”

21. “How lovely, the portraitist kept saying. How lovely.”

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Amanda Coplin Quote: “The night has made up its mind. It’s we who are too slow, who move in the wake of events already decided for us, who refuse, who are too weak or too simple, or are perhaps, strictly, unable to understand.”

22. “The night has made up its mind. It’s we who are too slow, who move in the wake of events already decided for us, who refuse, who are too weak or too simple, or are perhaps, strictly, unable to understand.”

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Amanda Coplin Quote: “She craved it for some reason- she would not look at it directly- that sense of despair.”

23. “She craved it for some reason- she would not look at it directly- that sense of despair.”

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