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Melanie’s Quotes

“Topaz was wonderfully patient - but sometimes I wonder if it is not only patience, but also a faint resemblance to cows.”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

tags: humor, i-capture-the-castle

14 likes

“I've done many things that I thought I would never dare to do because they were sins. But I didn't realize then that the consequence of sin is that you have to trample on other people.”
― Sigrid Undset, The Wreath

tags: catholic, sin

13 likes

“A marriage of two independent and equally irritable intelligences seems to me reckless to the point of insanity.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night

tags: independence, intelligence, irritability, marriage, matrimony, recklessness

73 likes

“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.”
― Sigrid Undset, Kristin Lavransdatter

tags: thoughts-heart-young

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“It isn't an easy thing to give your loyalty to someone you don't know, especially when that person chooses to reveal nothing of himself.”
― Megan Whalen Turner, The King of Attolia

tags: eugenides, loyalty, teleus, the-king-of-attolia, trust

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