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“You shall not look at me, she wants to say, you shall not see into me. I will not be yours. How dare you assess me and find me lacking?”
― Maggie O'Farrell, The Marriage Portrait

“The animal was orange, burnished gold, fire made flesh; she was power and anger, she was vicious and exquisite;”
― Maggie O'Farrell, The Marriage Portrait

“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

“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