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“They forgot everything the minute they were together again.”
― Wuthering Heights
― Wuthering Heights
“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same”
― Wuthering Heights
― Wuthering Heights
“After everything that's happened, how can the world still be so beautiful? Because it is.”
― Oryx and Crake
― Oryx and Crake
“I loved her; we were happy; I miss her. She didn't love me; we were unhappy; I miss her.”
― Flaubert's Parrot
― Flaubert's Parrot
“As later Priam comes secretly to the enemy camp to plead with Achilles for the return of his son Hector's body, he says: "'I do what no man before me has ever done, I kiss the hands of the man who killed my son."
Those words echoed round me, as I stood in the storage hut, surrounded on all sides by the wealth Achilles had plundered from burning cities. I thought: "And I do what countless women before me have been forced to do. I spread my legs for the man who killed my husband and my brothers.”
― The Silence of the Girls
Those words echoed round me, as I stood in the storage hut, surrounded on all sides by the wealth Achilles had plundered from burning cities. I thought: "And I do what countless women before me have been forced to do. I spread my legs for the man who killed my husband and my brothers.”
― The Silence of the Girls
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