Eliza
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“Optimism is the first symptom that any disease is fatal.”
― Tell-All
― Tell-All
“A salacious lie will always trump a noble truth.”
― Tell-All
― Tell-All
“Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.”
― And Then There Were None
― And Then There Were None
“If those we love visit us when we dream, those who torment us almost always visit us when we're still awake.”
― The Lost Wife
― The Lost Wife
“It's your duty to use what influence you have, unless you want to drift through life like a fish belly-up on the stream"
"I wish I could believe that life really is something more than a stream that carries us along, belly-up"
"Alright, if it's a stream, you're still free to be in this part of it or that part, aren't you? The water will divide again and again. If you bump, and tussle, and fight, and make use of whatever advantages you might have-"
"Oh, that's fine, I'm sure, when you have advantages."
"You'd find them everywhere, if you ever bothered to look!”
― Memoirs of a Geisha
"I wish I could believe that life really is something more than a stream that carries us along, belly-up"
"Alright, if it's a stream, you're still free to be in this part of it or that part, aren't you? The water will divide again and again. If you bump, and tussle, and fight, and make use of whatever advantages you might have-"
"Oh, that's fine, I'm sure, when you have advantages."
"You'd find them everywhere, if you ever bothered to look!”
― Memoirs of a Geisha
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