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“Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I can not live without my life! I can not live without my soul!”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“Heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth; and the angels were so angry that they flung me out into the middle of the heath on the top of Wuthering Heights; where I woke sobbing for joy.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“Oh, what a queer house this is!" Mary said. "What a queer house! Everything is a kind of secret.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

“The tree said in its rooted being, "All my leaves are seen, but one, this one in the darkness cast by all the others. This one leaf I keep secret to myself. Who will see it in the darkness of my leaves? and who will count the number of them?”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

“Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

“I very nearly wished that I had been born a Hattifattener under the Hattifatteners' vague and drifting stars, and that no one expected anything else of me than that I also should be drifting along toward an unattainable horizon, never speaking to anyone and never mindful of anything.”
― Tove Jansson, Moominpappa's Memoirs

“My head was awhirl with thoughts I really had no need of, and for the first time I found no pleasure at all in thinking about myself. I had sunk into a state of deep gloom, which has also come over me at times later in my life when other people are achieving more than I myself.”
― Tove Jansson, Moominpappa's Memoirs

“But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.”
― Daphne du Maurier

“No doubt it was the truth, or so distorted in her mind that, to her, it became so.”
― Daphne du Maurier, My Cousin Rachel

“I looked on her profile. She was always a stranger, thus. Those neat clipped features on a coin. Dark and withdrawn, a foreign woman standing in a doorway, a shawl about her head, her hand outstretched. But full-face, when she smiled, a stranger never. The Rachel that I knew, that I had loved.”
― Daphne du Maurier, My Cousin Rachel

“My heart is heavy with the things I do not understand.”
― Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book

“Like so many unhappinesses, this one had begun with silence in the place of honest open talk.”
― Ira Levin, Rosemary's Baby

“In strange dreams we see ourselves most vividly.”
― Stephen R. Donaldson, Strange Dreams

“I was so tired of being touched and then forgotten, of hearing my name spoken and then not, as if I were only real when I was looked at, and just something to forget after that, like you never remember the flowers you toss away.”
― Patricia A. McKillip

“Pride was my wilderness, and the demon that led me there was fear. I was alone, and never free, for I carried my chains within me, and they spread out from me and shackled all I touched.”
― Margaret Laurence, The Stone Angel

“Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“There is a convalescent quality to our friendship nowadays, as we tiptoe gently through the garden where our old hatred lies buried.”
― Robert Silverberg, Dying Inside