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“She was like milk - too pale, too pure, too simple. She was made to be spoiled.”
― Sarah Waters, Fingersmith

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#2

“It's the worst yet. I'm in TEFL City.'

'TEFL City' because we called those times 'TEFL-pondering mornings', when your only option felt like emigration and teaching.”
― Emma Jane Unsworth, Animals

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#3

“There is no patience so terrible as that of the deranged.”
― Sarah Waters, Fingersmith

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#4

“A person can't help their birth. ”
― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

tags: status

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#5

“She had not character enough to take to drinking, and moaned about, slip-shod and in curl-papers, all day.”
― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

tags: alcohol, women

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#6

“It was odd to see her stepping out of that gloomy place, like a pearl coming out of an oyster.”
― Sarah Waters, Fingersmith

tags: gloomy, odd, oyster, pearl, pretty

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#7

“He would be cruel indeed, to put a passion in her, and then to punish her for feeling it.”
― Sarah Waters, Fingersmith

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#8

“Some cynical Frenchman has said that there are two parties to a love-transaction: the one who loves and the other who condescends to be so treated.”
― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

tags: love, relationships

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#9

“Everybody in my world knew that regular work was only another name for being robbed and dying of boredom.”
― Sarah Waters, Fingersmith

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#10

“He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.”
― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

tags: fear, paradox, suffer, suffering

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#11

“...a French lieutenant, who had been long enough out of France to forget his own language, but not long enough in England to learn ours, so that he really spoke no language at all.”
― Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

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#12

“She will be like everyone, putting on the things she sees the constructions she expects to find there.”
― Sarah Waters, Fingersmith

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#13

“One man's fish is another man's poisson.”
― Mark Gatiss, The Vesuvius Club

tags: humor

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#14

“Well, what was I to do? For the well-bred gentleman there was clearly only one recourse. I fucked him.”
― Mark Gatiss, The Vesuvius Club

tags: humour

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#15

“Perhaps...I could not be content with mere contentment!”
― Angela Carter, Nights at the Circus

tags: contentment

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#16

“Schadenfreude is so nutritious.”
― Will Self

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#17

“It was all quite ghastly and I was very fond of it.”
― Mark Gatiss, The Vesuvius Club

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#18

“You are a woman, and must begin to live like one. By which I mean: have courage.”
― Sarah Perry, The Essex Serpent

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#19

“College wasn't like the real world. In the real world people dropped names based on their renown. In college, people dropped names based on their obscurity.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot

tags: comedy, humor

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#20

“Besides(..), it's a poor woman whose ambition is only to be loved.”
― Sarah Perry, The Essex Serpent

tags: feminism, inspirational

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#21

“She'd like to say more, and explain that her years of marriage had so degraded her expectation of happiness that to sit cradling a teacup with no thought for what waited behind the curtains...seemed little short of miraculous.”
― Sarah Perry, The Essex Serpent

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#22

“There was a house we all had in common and it was called the past, even though we'd lived in different rooms.”
― Angela Carter, Wise Children

tags: past

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#23

“...for nothing is more boring than being forced to play.”
― Angela Carter, Nights at the Circus

tags: play

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#24

“Cora, you cannot always keep yourself away from things that hurt you. We all wish we could, but we cannot: to live at all is to be bruised.”
― Sarah Perry, The Essex Serpent

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#25

“Must we make battlegrounds out of our children?”
― Sarah Perry, The Essex Serpent

tags: children, parenting

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#26

“Stars on our door, stars in our eyes, stars exploding in the bits of our brains where the common sense should have been”
― Angela Carter, Wise Children

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#27

“Despair is the constant companion of the clown.”
― Angela Carter, Nights at the Circus

tags: circus, clown, despair

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#28

“we must not blame our poor symbols if they take forms that seem trivial to us, or absurd, ... however paltry they may be; the nature of our life alone has determined their forms.”
― Angela Carter, Passion of New Eve

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#29

“He was a lovely man in many ways. But he kept on insisting on forgiving me when there was nothing to forgive.”
― Angela Carter, Wise Children

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#30

“...as if Hollywood were the name of the enchanted forest where you loose yourself and find yourself, again; the wood that changes you; the wood where you go mad; the wood where the shadows life longer than you do.”
― Angela Carter, Wise Children

tags: fame, film, forest, hollywood, life, mortality, woods

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