“I think the damned souls in hell must spend half their time wondering what it was that they really meant to do.”
― The Perilous Gard
― The Perilous Gard
“Headbangers' are people who like heavy-metal music, which is performed by skinny men with huge hair who stomp around the stage, striking their instruments and shrieking angrily, apparently because somebody has stolen all their shirts.”
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“I sometimes wonder what it would be like to be the respected patriarch of an ordinary English family."
"Very boring, Emerson.”
― The Hippopotamus Pool
"Very boring, Emerson.”
― The Hippopotamus Pool
“You are softening toward the young rascal because he is ill, and because he says he likes cats."
"It is an engaging quality, Emerson."
"That depends," said Emerson darkly, "on how he likes them.”
― The Deeds of the Disturber
"It is an engaging quality, Emerson."
"That depends," said Emerson darkly, "on how he likes them.”
― The Deeds of the Disturber
“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever.”
― Persuasion
― Persuasion
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