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“She has always had a secret liking for this part of the embroidery, the ‘wrong’ side, congested with knots, striations of silk and twists of thread. How much more interesting it is, with its frank display of the labour needed to attain the perfection of the finished piece.”
― Maggie O'Farrell, The Marriage Portrait

“He says again that he will not hurt her, she must not be scared, he will not hurt her, he will not, he promises, the words whispered in his new rasping voice. And then he hurts her anyway. The pain is startling, and curious in its specificity”
― Maggie O'Farrell, The Marriage Portrait

“Just the act of falling in love was to agree to a broken heart.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Atmosphere

“It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch