“What is this terror? what is this ecstasy? he thought to himself. What is it that fills me with this extraordinary excitement?
It is Clarissa, he said.
For there she was.”
― Mrs. Dalloway
It is Clarissa, he said.
For there she was.”
― Mrs. Dalloway
“Her eyes are like two candles when you watch them gutter down into the sockets of iron candle-sticks. But the eternal and the everlasting salvation and grace is not upon her.”
― As I Lay Dying
― As I Lay Dying
“She ought to taken them,” Kate says. “But those rich town ladies can change their minds. Poor folks cant.”
― As I Lay Dying
― As I Lay Dying
“No decent man ought to read Shakespeare's sonnets because it was like listening at keyholes.”
― Mrs. Dalloway
― Mrs. Dalloway
“I kind of loved it. It made a romance out of something absolutely mundane, which was something that I was incredibly experienced at.”
― Loveless
― Loveless
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