Mary Beth
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The Binding
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Here the clock in the hall dredged up seconds like stones and dropped them again into the pool of the day, letting each ripple widen before the next one fell.
“What is so marvelous about living today is that it is possible to extend, like a flower, spreading petals in all directions.”
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“uncomfortably conscious that women of her age did not generally hide in cupboards drinking whisky”
― The Incident at Fives Castle
― The Incident at Fives Castle
“I set fire to his bed one night while he was in it. I’d be obliged if you wouldn’t mention that, though, as they never found out who did it, but the police got involved and things were rather unpleasant at school for a while.”
― The Incident at Fives Castle
― The Incident at Fives Castle
“are you not ashamed of your eagerness to possess as much wealth, reputation, and honors as possible, while you do not care for nor give thought to wisdom or truth, or the best possible state of your soul?”
― Plato: Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo
― Plato: Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo
“Thanks for all the wonderful memories. They're like something in a museum already or something preserved in amber, a little unreal, as you must have felt yourself always to me”
― The Talented Mr. Ripley
― The Talented Mr. Ripley
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