“If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions—you'd be doomed. You'd be ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You'd never love anyone, ever again. You'd never dare to.”
― The Blind Assassin
― The Blind Assassin
“Old lovers go the way of old photographs, bleaching out gradually as in a slow bath of acid: first the moles and pimples, then the shadings. Then the faces themselves, until nothing remains but the general outlines.”
― Cat’s Eye
― Cat’s Eye
“He is a gentleman, and I am a gentleman's daughter. So far we are equal.”
― Pride and Prejudice
― Pride and Prejudice
“There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.”
― Emma
― Emma
“But I began then to think of time as having a shape, something you could see, like a series of liquid transparencies, one laid on top of another.”
― Cat’s Eye
― Cat’s Eye
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