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'Salem's Lot
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But spring is not the finest season in New England—it’s too short, too uncertain, too apt to turn savage on short notice.
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
― Pride and Prejudice
― Pride and Prejudice
“I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I'm old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.”
― Brideshead Revisited
― Brideshead Revisited
“What fresh hell is this?”
― The Portable Dorothy Parker
― The Portable Dorothy Parker
“If it could only be like this always – always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper...”
― Brideshead Revisited
― Brideshead Revisited
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