“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”
― Frankenstein
― Frankenstein
“I realize full well how hard it must be to go on living alone in a place from which someone has left you, but there is nothing so cruel in this world as the desolation of having nothing to hope for.”
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
“Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern.”
― Meditations in an Emergency
― Meditations in an Emergency
“I wish I was a woman of about thirty-six dressed in black satin with a string of pearls.”
― Rebecca
― Rebecca
“Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.”
― Frankenstein
― Frankenstein
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