“Unexpectedly, this did not kill her; and what did not kill her made her curious.”
― Harrow the Ninth
― Harrow the Ninth
“I just want to do the whole thing right. I want to take it seriously."
"But do you—I mean—do you really believe it?"
Virginia snorts. "That's not the right framework," she says. "Believing is all about feeling," she says at last. "Affirming is about deciding. There's a difference.”
― The World Cannot Give
"But do you—I mean—do you really believe it?"
Virginia snorts. "That's not the right framework," she says. "Believing is all about feeling," she says at last. "Affirming is about deciding. There's a difference.”
― The World Cannot Give
“I KISSED YOU AND LATER I WOULD KISS HIM TOO BEFORE I UNDERSTOOD WHAT YOU WERE, AND ALL THREE OF US LIVED TO REGRET IT—BUT WHEN I AM IN HEAVEN I WILL REMEMBER YOUR MOUTH, AND WHEN YOU ROAST DOWN IN HELL I THINK YOU WILL REMEMBER MINE”
― Harrow the Ninth
― Harrow the Ninth
“In many ways, women are death's natural companions. Every time a woman gives birth, she is creating not only a life, but a death. Samuel Beckett wrote that women "give birth astride of a grave." Mother Nature is indeed a real mother, creating and destroying in a constant loop.”
― Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
― Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
“We can never go back again, that much is certain. The past is still close to us. The things we have tried to forget and put behind us would stir again, and that sense of fear, of furtive unrest, struggling at length to blind unreasoning panic - now mercifully stilled, thank God - might in some manner unforeseen become a living companion as it had before.”
― Rebecca
― Rebecca
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