“And when he came to, he was flat on his back on the beach in the freezing sand, and it was raining out of a low sky, and the tide was way out.”
― Infinite Jest
― Infinite Jest
“Give me a moment, because I like to cry for joy. It's so delicious, John dear, to cry for joy.”
― Our Mutual Friend
― Our Mutual Friend
“Nothing is more perplexing to a man than the mental process of a woman who reasons her emotions.”
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“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”
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“Would you not be happier if you tried to forget her severity, together with the passionate emotions it excited? Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs." - Helen Burns”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
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