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“She realized for the first time that aversion and attraction ran side by side; that the boundary-line was thin between them.”
― Jamaica Inn
― Jamaica Inn
“She knew that this was happiness, this was living as she had always wished to live.”
― Frenchman's Creek
― Frenchman's Creek
“He took her face in his hands and kissed it, and she saw that he was laughing. "When you're an old maid in mittens down at Helford, you'll remember that," he said, "and it will have to last you to the end of your days. 'He stole horses,' you'll say to yourself, 'and he didn't care for women; and but for my pride I'd have been with him now.”
― Jamaica Inn
― Jamaica Inn
“But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.”
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“I don't want to love like a woman or feel like a woman, Mr Davey; there's pain that way, and suffering, and misery that can last a lifetime. I didn't bargain for this; I don't want it.”
― Jamaica Inn
― Jamaica Inn
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