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alex said:
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Kiss, Kiss
"The Landlady"
read this when i was younger and it was just as good as i remember. the juxtaposition of appearance and reality is really well-written; it's so good i want to write an essay about it
rating: 4/5
"William and Mary"
A d ...more "
“He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.”
― Anna Karenina
― Anna Karenina
“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.”
― The Haunting of Hill House
― The Haunting of Hill House
“Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read.”
― Agnes Grey
― Agnes Grey
“All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity, that the dry, shriveled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the nut.”
― Agnes Grey
― Agnes Grey
“A man is not a bird, to come and go with the springtime.”
― Death of a Salesman
― Death of a Salesman
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