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“Topaz was wonderfully patient - but sometimes I wonder if it is not only patience, but also a faint resemblance to cows.”
― I Capture the Castle
― I Capture the Castle
“Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them.”
― Gaudy Night
― Gaudy Night
“Being a hero means ignoring how silly you feel.”
― Fire and Hemlock
― Fire and Hemlock
“I'm not to blame, Ramborg, if a man's heart is created in such a fashion that whatever is inscribed on it when it's young and fresh is carved deeper than all the runes that are later etched.”
― Kristin Lavransdatter
― Kristin Lavransdatter
“A marriage of two independent and equally irritable intelligences seems to me reckless to the point of insanity.”
― Gaudy Night
― Gaudy Night
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