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“Sometimes when I had planned the next morning for my escape a word of more than usual affection from her lips made me postpone my resolution. I reproached myself bitterly for what I called a culpable weakness; but this weakness returned upon me whenever the critical moment approached, and I never found courage to depart.”
― Mathilda
― Mathilda
“I'm not even human. Something as sophisticated as a heart wouldn't suit me.”
― 文豪ストレイドッグス STORM BRINGER [Bungō Stray Dogs: Storm Bringer]
― 文豪ストレイドッグス STORM BRINGER [Bungō Stray Dogs: Storm Bringer]
“I who had before clothed myself in the bright garb of sincerity must now borrow one of divers colours: it might sit awkwardly at first, but use would enable me to place it in elegant folds, to lie with grace.”
― Mathilda
― Mathilda
“I wandered for ever about these lovely solitudes, gathering flower after flower”
― Mathilda
― Mathilda
“I wished for one heart in which I could pour unrestrained my plaints, and by the heavenly nature of the soil blessed fruit might spring from such bad seed. Yet how could I find this? The love that is the soul of friendship is a soft spirit seldom found except when two amiable creatures are knit from early youth, or when bound by mutual suffering and pursuits; it comes to some of the elect unsought and unaware; it descends as gentle dew on chosen spots which however barren they were before become under its benign influence fertile in all sweet plants; but when desired it flies; it scoffs at the prayers of its votaries; it will bestow, but not be sought.”
― Mathilda
― Mathilda
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