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“Margaret was a sensitive string from which her father could pluck any note he wished. He began early. He used to threaten her when she was no more than a baby that he would go away and get another little girl. Her tears enchanted him. The droop of her mouth was delicious. She used to put her head down on his shoulder and cry, not noisily like a baby, but quietly like an adult. He used to frighten her for the sake of feeling her press closer to him, for the sake of soothing her again.”
― They Were Sisters
― They Were Sisters
“She was watching Aunt Morgen carefully, looking at the big earnest ugly face and the false little smile and the mouth still a little open, and she thought, people shouldn’t ever look closely at one another, they’re not like pictures.”
― The Bird's Nest
― The Bird's Nest
“You speak like a heroine,” said Montoni contemptuously, “we shall see if you can suffer like one.”
― The Mysteries of Udolpho
― The Mysteries of Udolpho
“M. Emanuel was away three years. Reader, they were the three happiest years of my life. Do you scout the paradox? Listen. I commenced my school; I worked—I worked hard. I deemed myself the steward of his property, and determined, God willing, to render a good account.”
― Villette
― Villette
“It was as if June had given her a box—as if every parent gives their children a box—full of the things they carried. June had given her children this box packed to the brim with her own experiences, her own treasures and heartbreaks. Her own guilts and pleasures, triumphs and losses, values and biases, duties and sorrows. And Nina had been carrying around this box her whole life, feeling the full weight of it. But it was not, Nina saw just then, her job to carry the full box. Her job was to sort through the box. To decide what to keep, and to put the rest down. She had to choose what, of the things she inherited from the people who came before her, she wanted to bring forward. And what, of the past, she wanted to leave behind.”
― Malibu Rising
― Malibu Rising
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