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“Here was her mother sitting down across from her, reaching for her hands and chafing them as if she were frozen. She felt the rub of her mother’s wedding ring against her skin, and her mother’s face swam into focus, her brown eyes full of the sharp worry of love, and Lily thought, You will never look at me like this again.”
― Last Night at the Telegraph Club
― Last Night at the Telegraph Club
“I am nothing in my soul if not obsessive.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.”
― The Metamorphosis
― The Metamorphosis
“Remus had to stop. Not because the next song had interrupted him, or even because he’d realised that that moment was the first time he’d openly offered any information about his London friends; he had to stop because Sirius was crying.”
― The Cadence of Part-time Poets
― The Cadence of Part-time Poets
“My mother told me we are all like roses. I always thought it means that we opened our petals, took our true form, and gradually withered. But perhaps we never stop growing. If women are flowers, we are not roses, but day's eyes - blooming not once, but over and over, each time the light touches us.”
― A Day of Fallen Night
― A Day of Fallen Night
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