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It was characteristic of this lady (as of some other people before her time and since) that whenever her original proposition was questioned, she exaggerated it.
“It was characteristic of this lady (as of some other people before her time and since) that whenever her original proposition was questioned, she exaggerated it.”
― A Tale of Two Cities
― A Tale of Two Cities
“Heather had grown up starved of love, and when you’re starved of something you should receive in abundance, you never quite trust it.”
― Nine Perfect Strangers
― Nine Perfect Strangers
“Valleysmen’d not want to hear, she answered, that human hunger birthed the Civ’lize, but human hunger killed it too. I know it from other tribes offland what I stayed with. Times are you say a person’s b’liefs ain’t true, they think you’re sayin’ their lifes ain’t true an’ their truth ain’t true.”
― Cloud Atlas
― Cloud Atlas
“A man three parts moustache to one part facial features responded to “Darling!” with the dutiful twitch of one who has chosen not to fight the inevitable. “Mr August is British, would you ever have guessed?”
― The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
― The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
“Speaking Mandarin with a Russian accent is extremely difficult. Of all the languages I have learned, Mandarin took me the longest, and having to replicate the suitable tones while simultaneously presenting myself as a rather bumbling Soviet scholar was an exercise that caused me considerable distress. In”
― The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
― The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
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