“Reader, I married him.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
“Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
“An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.”
― Franny and Zooey
― Franny and Zooey
“If happiness is anticipation with certainty, we were happy.”
― The Bluest Eye
― The Bluest Eye
“You looked at them and wondered why they were so ugly; you looked closely and could not find the source. Then you realized that it came from conviction, their conviction. It was as though some mysterious all-knowing master had given each one a cloak of ugliness to wear, and they had each accepted it without question.”
― The Bluest Eye
― The Bluest Eye
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