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One could say it is the patient, not the illness, that is progressively broken down.
“I slip outside into the rain again, feeling like half a ghost myself. Because that’s the other part of being a Jew in Europe— each step I take is in defiance of everyone who didn’t want me here.”
― The Ghosts of Rose Hill
― The Ghosts of Rose Hill
“I doubt if there are many normal women who can resist looking at houses. I believe, in fact, that when a house is up for sale more than half the people who look over it are not prospective buyers, but merely ladies who cannot resist exploring someone else's house.”
― The Stormy Petrel
― The Stormy Petrel
“And what is hell? Can you tell me that?”
“A pit full of fire.”
“And should you like to fall into that pit, and to be burning there for ever?”
“No, sir.”
“What must you do to avoid it?”
I deliberated a moment; my answer, when it did come, was objectionable: “I must keep in good health, and not die.”
― Jane Eyre
“A pit full of fire.”
“And should you like to fall into that pit, and to be burning there for ever?”
“No, sir.”
“What must you do to avoid it?”
I deliberated a moment; my answer, when it did come, was objectionable: “I must keep in good health, and not die.”
― Jane Eyre
“This is what it’s like to be Jewish in Europe. Every beautiful thing has horror buried under it. I’m always walking on bones. The”
― The Ghosts of Rose Hill
― The Ghosts of Rose Hill
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― The Ghosts of Rose Hill
― The Ghosts of Rose Hill
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