“The novels that attract me most... are those that create an illusion of transperancy around a knot of human relationships as obscure, cruel and perverse as possible.”
― If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
― If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
“noone knows and noone sees
we lovers doing what we please
but people stop and point at these
ten milk bottles a-turning into cheese”
―
we lovers doing what we please
but people stop and point at these
ten milk bottles a-turning into cheese”
―
“No: I shall not marry Samuel Fawthrop Wynne."
"I ask why? I must have a reason. In all respects he is more than worthy of you."
She stood on the hearth; she was pale as the white marble slab and cornice behind her; her eyes flashed large, dilated, unsmiling.
"And I ask in what sense that young man is worthy of me?”
― Shirley
"I ask why? I must have a reason. In all respects he is more than worthy of you."
She stood on the hearth; she was pale as the white marble slab and cornice behind her; her eyes flashed large, dilated, unsmiling.
"And I ask in what sense that young man is worthy of me?”
― Shirley
“I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
― Anne of Green Gables
― Anne of Green Gables
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