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“She’s wonderful. Tell her I’ve never seen such beautiful hands. I wonder what she sees in you.”
Waddington, smiling, translated the question.
“She says I’m good.”
“As if a woman ever loved a man for his virtue,” Kitty mocked.”
― The Painted Veil
Waddington, smiling, translated the question.
“She says I’m good.”
“As if a woman ever loved a man for his virtue,” Kitty mocked.”
― The Painted Veil
“If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.”
― The Painted Veil
― The Painted Veil
“She alone had been blind to his merit. Why? Because he loved her and she did not love him. What was it in the human heart that made you despise a man because he loved you?”
― The Painted Veil
― The Painted Veil
“How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.”
― The Painted Veil
― The Painted Veil
“She could not admit but that he had remarkable qualities, sometimes she thought that there was even in him a strange and unattractive greatness; it was curious then that she could not love him, but loved still a man whose worthlessness was now so clear to her.”
― The Painted Veil
― The Painted Veil
Steph’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Steph’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
172 books
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53 friends
562 books
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94 friends
1,260 books
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126 friends
442 books
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8 friends
152 books
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230 friends
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