“I am glad my case is not serious! But these nervous troubles are dreadfully depressing. John does not know how much I really suffer. He knows there is no reason to suffer, and that satisfies him.”
― The Yellow Wall-Paper
― The Yellow Wall-Paper
“At present I would prefer not to be a little reasonable,' was his mildly cadaverous reply.”
― Bartleby the Scrivener
― Bartleby the Scrivener
“I never saw a worse paper in my life. One of those sprawling flamboyant patterns committing every artistic sin.”
― The Yellow Wall-Paper
― The Yellow Wall-Paper
“John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage.”
― The Yellow Wall-Paper
― The Yellow Wall-Paper
“I feel no nostalgia for our childhood: it was full of violence. Every sort of thing happened, at home and outside, every day, but I don't recall having ever thought that the life we had there was particularly bad. Life was like that, that's all, we grew up with the duty to make it difficult for others before they made it difficult for us.”
― My Brilliant Friend
― My Brilliant Friend
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