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Mariana is Currently Reading

Mariana is currently reading

The Goldfinch

by Donna Tartt

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Mariana’s Quotes

“Besides, if you want to write something perfect, write a haiku. Anything longer is bound to have a few passages that don't work as well as they might.”
― Philip Pullman

tags: haiku, writing

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“The affair, in short, had been of the kind that most of the young men of his age had been through and emerged from with calm consciences and an undisturbed belief in the abysmal distinction between the women one loved and respected and those one enjoyed—and pitied.”
― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

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“and beneath his chivalry to Miss Quested resentment lurked, waiting its day - perhaps there is a grain of resentment in all chivalry.”
― E.M. Forster, A Passage to India

tags: chivalry, resentment

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“There’s only so long you can feel sorry for a person before you come to feel that their affliction is an act of malice committed by them against you.”
― Margaret Atwood, Stone Mattress: Nine Tales

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