History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation.” ’
“There is no going back in life. There is no return. No second chance. I cannot call back the spoken word or the accomplished deed, sitting here, alive and in my own home, any more than poor Tom Jenkyn could, swinging in his chains.”
― Daphne du Maurier Omnibus 4: Rebecca; My Cousin Rachel
― Daphne du Maurier Omnibus 4: Rebecca; My Cousin Rachel
“For it is not always the one that strikes the blow, that is the actual murderer; and Mary was done to death by that unknown gentleman, as surely as if he’d taken the knife and plunged it into her body himself.”
― Alias Grace
― Alias Grace
“how seldom we recognize the sounds when the bolt of our fate slides home.”
― Red Dragon
― Red Dragon
“When all is said and done, it is my life.”
― Kafka on the Shore
― Kafka on the Shore
“You deserve this. You have killed yourself. Yes, you may kiss me, and cry; and wring out my kisses and tears: they’ll blight you—they’ll damn you. You loved me—then what right had you to leave me? What right—answer me—for the poor fancy you felt for Linton? Because misery and degradation, and death, and nothing that God or Satan could inflict would have parted us, you, of your own will, did it. I have not broken your heart—you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.”
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