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“You need a plan,” she hears—or seems to hear—her old nurse, Sofia, say, from a place near her elbow. “To lose your temper is to lose the battle.”
― Maggie O'Farrell, The Marriage Portrait

“Was there no hope? the tigress seemed to be
asking her. Will I always remain here? Will I never return home?”
― Maggie O'Farrell, The Marriage Portrait

“Ow if you please don't! Ow, what has everybody gone and been and done with everybody, making everybody else so wretched!
Ow-w-w-w!”
― Charles Dickens, The Cricket on the Hearth

“Does the light still slant into my chamber in the evening, just before it disappears below the city's roofs? Do you miss me? Even a little? Does anyone ever go and stand before my portrait?”
― Maggie O'Farrell, The Marriage Portrait