“No I don't, no I reject that I reject you, I am not your sister, I am not your twin, I am not you.”
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“Holmes speaks of grief “staining backward” through the pages of life; but Valancy found her happiness had stained backward likewise and flooded with rose-colour her whole previous drab existence. She found it hard to believe that she had ever been lonely and unhappy and afraid.”
― The Blue Castle
― The Blue Castle
“Is that a nice thing to say to your mother? Oh, how true it is that it is sharper than a serpent’s tooth to have a thankless child.” “Is that a nice thing to say to your daughter?” said unrepentant Valancy.”
― The Blue Castle
― The Blue Castle
“I had never thought more that we were two halves of the same girl.”
― Death and the Sisters
― Death and the Sisters
“The thought of her mother’s expression made Valancy laugh – for she had a sense of humour nobody in her clan suspected.”
― The Blue Castle
― The Blue Castle
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