“Then, sometimes a game of chess; or pictures in Bond Street, or a long way home to take the air with Bonamy on his arm, meditatively marching, head thrown back, the world a spectacle, the early moon above the steeples coming in for praise, the sea-gulls flying high, Nelson on his column surveying the horizon, and the world our ship.”
― Jacob's Room
― Jacob's Room
“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
“Something crafted with so much love could never sink”
― The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea
― The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea
“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 you look at them steadily, she says, multiplicity becomes unity, which is somehow the secret of life”
― Jacob's Room
― Jacob's Room
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