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“He was surprised by his own knowledge of the rules of behaviour; how much more can be said than one thought; how open one can be with a woman; and how little he had known himself before.”
― Jacob's Room
― Jacob's Room
“For never was there a more irrational passion. And Jacob was afraid of her for a moment—so violent, so dangerous is it when young women stand rigid; grasp the barrier; fall in love.”
― Jacob's Room
― Jacob's Room
“That there is no place you can go so far away from forgiveness. Not from someone who loves you.”
― The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea
― The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea
“But if the pale blue envelope lying by the biscuit-box had the feelings of a mother, the heart was torn by the little creak, the sudden stir.”
― Jacob's Room
― Jacob's Room
“It is thus that we live, they say, driven by an unseizable force. They say that the novelists never catch it; that it goes hurtling through their nets and leaves them torn to ribbons. This, they say, is what we live by—this unseizable force.”
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