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“Happiness from long ago that hasn’t carried into today turns into a sadness that’s too much to bear.”
― A Gallery of Mothers
― A Gallery of Mothers
“Nothing dies in Hell.”
― Plague of Angels
― Plague of Angels
“Sympathies that lie too deep for words, too deep almost for thoughts, are touched, at such times, by other charms than those which the senses feel and which the resources of expression can realise.”
― The Woman in White
― The Woman in White
“If it wasn’t for the fact that Bruno was nowhere near as skinny as the boys on his side of the fence, and not quite so pale either, it would have been difficult to tell them apart. It was almost (Shmuel thought) as if they were all exactly the same really.”
― The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
― The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
“There is a reason why it used to be that politics, religion, and sex were not topics for polite conversation. It is because our grandparents knew that while everyone is legally entitled to vote, pray, and fuck, the vast majority of people aren’t competent to do any one of the three properly.”
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