“I can't give you the white picket fence, and if I did, you'd set it on fire.”
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
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“All I wanted was a little piece of life, to be married, to have children…. I was trying my damnedest to lead a conventional life, for that was how I was brought up, and it was what my husband wanted of me. But one can't build little white picket fences to keep the nightmares out.”
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