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“To leave my tale half told, will, you know, be a sort of security that I shall appear at your breakfast table to finish it.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“I do not remember all that Miss Mary Strandon said to me in parting. But I remember her saying that she would like me to come someday to her home town of Spencer, Iowa. She told me that the trees there were as luxuriant as in Baguio. Fifteen years afterward I went to Spencer, hoping to find her. But she had been dead for more than ten years. I wrote her name on a copy of my first book and donated it to the local library. I think she would have been happy to know that; I would someday write a book about her country.”
― Carlos Bulosan, America Is in the Heart: A Personal History

“Roman history is like astronomy in that respect. New experiments cannot be carried out. But a vast mass of distant and ancient phenomena can be observed through tiny packets of residual data, and the forces and cataclysmic events that formed the observable universe can be reconstructed.”
― Greg Woolf, Rome: An Empire's Story

“Because I - because I want to feel you holding me," he stammered, and dragged her to her feet.”
― Edith Wharton, Ethan Frome and Selected Stories