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“If you need anything, I’ll be sleeping just off the dressing room. Just pull this cord and I’ll come at once.” Cordelia looked dutifully at the cord in question, nodded, and vowed that she would not pull it unless the house was on fire.
“She had learnt a painful lesson, she thought – that as they die, the ones we love, we lose our witnesses, our watchers, those who know and understand the tiny little meaningless patterns, those words drawn in water with a stick. And there is nothing left but the endless flow.”
― The Witching Hour
― The Witching Hour
“My heart—I could not feel my heart, nor the emotion gripping it. What I felt was too big—it was as if it were outside me, a current that had swept me up and was rushing me along.”
― The Fisherman
― The Fisherman
“Those white things have taken all I had or dreamed,” she said, “and broke my heartstrings too. There is no bad luck in the world but whitefolks.”
― Beloved
― Beloved
“We ought to be in a conservatory, you in a white frock with a rose in your hand, and a violin playing a waltz in the distance. And I should make violent love to you behind a palm tree.”
― Rebecca
― Rebecca
“I try to avoid having thoughts. They lead to other thoughts, and—if you’re not careful—those lead to actions. Actions make you tired. I have this on rather good authority from someone who once read it in a book.”
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