“I saw that deep-heart love meant loving someone in spite of and because of his limitations.”
― Peony in Love
― Peony in Love
“The beauty or ugliness of a character lay not only in its achievements, but in its aims and impulses; its true history lay, not among things done, but among things willed.”
― Tess of the D’Urbervilles
― Tess of the D’Urbervilles
“I am, at this moment, what I have always been to him: an object of beauty. He has never loved me as a woman.”
― The Lady of the Rivers
― The Lady of the Rivers
“I thought, There goes my lord, whom I was born to follow. I have found a King.
And, I said to myself, looking after him as he walked away, I will have him, if I die for it.”
― The Persian Boy
And, I said to myself, looking after him as he walked away, I will have him, if I die for it.”
― The Persian Boy
“Accept who you are. Unless you're a serial killer.”
― Seriously... I'm Kidding
― Seriously... I'm Kidding
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