She and Marie were Montreal girls not trained to accompany heroes or to hold out for dreams but just to be patient.
Mavis Gallant
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She was a pretty girl with a pointed face and blueblack hair. But she was an untidy a dusty sort of girl and you felt that in a few years something might go wrong she might get swollen ankles or grow a mustache.
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I began to ration my writing, for fear I would dream through life as my father had done. I was afraid I had inherited a poisoned gene from him, a vocation without a gift.
- Mavis Gallant