Rebecca

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Rebecca’s Quotes

“All cat stories start with this statement: "My mother, who was the first cat, told me this...”
― Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle

tags: cats

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“I'm going to put death in all their food and watch them die.”
― Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle

tags: death, hate, poison

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“I am a minstrel. I know more about lying than you will ever discover. And minstrels know that sometimes lies are what a man needs most. In order to make a new truth of them.”
― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Quest

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“But when you find your soul, you have to go. When you find your true shape, when the wind lifts you up, when you remember who you are, you have to go.”
― Katherine Catmull, Summer and Bird

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“I was wondering about my eyes; one of my eyes–-the left–-saw everything golden and yellow and orange, and the other eye saw shades of blue and grey and green; perhaps one eye was for daylight and the other was for night. If everyone in the world saw different colors from different eyes there might be a great many new colors still to be invented.”
― shirley jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle

tags: colors, perspectives

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