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“For those who like that sort of thing," said Miss Brodie in her best Edinburgh voice, "That is the sort of thing they like.”
― The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
― The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
“I am like a small creature swallowed whole by a monster, she thought, and the monster feels my tiny little movements inside.”
― The Haunting of Hill House
― The Haunting of Hill House
“Do I have to talk to insane people?"
"You're a librarian now. I'm afraid it's mandatory.”
― The Woman Who Died a Lot
"You're a librarian now. I'm afraid it's mandatory.”
― The Woman Who Died a Lot
“Do you really think you'd win a PR war against a bunch of committed librarians?' He thought about this, but he knew I was right. The libraries were a treasured institution and so central to everyday life that government and commerce rarely did anything that might upset them.Some say they were more powerful than the military, or, if not, they were certainly quieter. As they say: Don't mess with librarians.
Only they use a stronger word than 'mess'...”
― The Woman Who Died a Lot
Only they use a stronger word than 'mess'...”
― The Woman Who Died a Lot
“I smelled of gin. Not just casually, as if I had taken four or five drinks of a winter morning to get out of bed on, but as if the Pacific Ocean was pure gin and I had nosedived off the boat deck. The gin was in my hair and eyebrows, on my chin and under my chin. It was on my shirt. I smelled like dead toads.”
― The Lady in the Lake
― The Lady in the Lake
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