“When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.”
― The Handmaid’s Tale
― The Handmaid’s Tale
“If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.”
― Sense and Sensibility
― Sense and Sensibility
“I’m not running away from my responsibilities. I’m running to them. There’s nothing negative about running away to save my life.”
― Catch-22
― Catch-22
“I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.”
― Sense and Sensibility
― Sense and Sensibility
“--There you are. The sight of the changing world is miraculous and heartbreaking, both at the same time.
--But so it is for me too. The heartbreaking side of growing old is not in the things around one but in oneself.”
― The Woman Destroyed
--But so it is for me too. The heartbreaking side of growing old is not in the things around one but in oneself.”
― The Woman Destroyed
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