“He thinks, I remembered you, Thomas More, but you didn't remember me. You never even saw me coming.”
― Wolf Hall
― Wolf Hall
“As the last chimes die away, a series of contorted male shrieks rise up from somewhere nearby; a late coupling between the sheets or a few early knife thrusts into a belly? He smiles. Such are the sounds of his beloved city, the sounds indeed of the whole of Italy.”
― In the Name of the Family
― In the Name of the Family
“In every cloud, in every tree – filling the air at night, and caught by glimpses in every object, by day I am surrounded with her image! The most ordinary faces of men, and women – my own features mock me with a resemblance. The entire world is a dreadful collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her!”
― Wuthering Heights
― Wuthering Heights
“I have written books and I cannot unwrite them. I cannot unbelieve what I believe. I cannot unlive my life.”
― Wolf Hall
― Wolf Hall
“Then, with the gladness which must be felt, nay, which he did not scruple to feel, having never believed Frank Churchill to be at all deserving Emma, was there so much fond solicitude, so much keen anxiety for her, that he could stay no longer. He had ridden home through the rain; and had walked up directly after dinner, to see how this sweetest and best of all creatures, faultless in spite of all her faults, bore the discovery.”
― Emma
― Emma
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