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"Justine's story is without a doubt the most horrifying thing in the novel." — Oct 14, 2025 11:03PM
"Justine's story is without a doubt the most horrifying thing in the novel." — Oct 14, 2025 11:03PM
“I thought I loved him when he went away; I love him now in another degree: he is more my own. [ . . . ] Oh! a thousand weepers, praying in agony on waiting shores, listened for that voice, but it was not uttered--not uttered till; when the hush came, some could not feel it: till, when the sun returned, his light was night to some!”
― Villette
― Villette
“I don't say Valancy deliberately murdered these lovers as she outgrew them. One simply faded away as another came. Things are very convenient in this respect in Blue Castles.”
― The Blue Castle
― The Blue Castle
“Journeys end in lovers meeting; I have spent an all but sleepless night, I have told lies and made a fool of myself, and the very air tastes like wine. I have been frightened half out of my foolish wits, but I have somehow earned this joy; I have been waiting for it for so long.”
― The Haunting of Hill House
― The Haunting of Hill House
“Just to love! She did not ask to be loved. It was rapture enough just to sit there beside him in silence, alone in the summer night in the white splendor of moonshine, with the wind blowing down on them out of the pine woods.”
― The Blue Castle
― The Blue Castle
“I've been keeping up appearances all my life. Now I'm going in for realities.”
― The Blue Castle
― The Blue Castle
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