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But if Irina was quiet, she was quiet the way a heated skillet is quiet—in the moments before you drop in the fat. For while Pushkin had enjoyed watching the young man’s words float past, Irina’s consciousness had closed upon them like the
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“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Northanger Abbey
― Northanger Abbey
“No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy would have supposed her born to be an heroine.”
― Northanger Abbey
― Northanger Abbey
“In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”
― Pride And Prejudice
― Pride And Prejudice
“An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.”
― Ninety-Three
― Ninety-Three
“If the heroine of one novel be not patronized by the heroine of another, from whom can she expect protection and regard?”
― Northanger Abbey
― Northanger Abbey
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