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The shame of knowing that her mother had never wanted her was bearable only so long as no one knew that Ashi knew. Shame had a way of multiplying when other people saw it. It made you naked and gross.
“An unknown man in a lonely place is a permitted object of fear to a young woman privately bred.”
― The Turn of the Screw
― The Turn of the Screw
“But even while they pretend to be lost in their fairy-tale they're steeped in their vision of the dead restored to them.”
― The Turn of the Screw
― The Turn of the Screw
“Oh, it was a trap — not designed but deep — to my imagination, to my delicacy, perhaps to my vanity; to whatever in me was most excitable.”
― The Turn of the Screw
― The Turn of the Screw
“She believed me, I was sure, absolutely; if she hadn't I don't know what would have become of me, for I couldn't have borne the strain alone.”
― The Turn of the Screw
― The Turn of the Screw
Judy’s 2025 Year in Books
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