“Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.”
― The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
― The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
“If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises,
Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears; and sometime voices,
That, if I then had waked after long sleep,
Will make me sleep again: and then, in dreaming,
The clouds methought would open, and show riches
Ready to drop upon me; that, when I waked,
I cried to dream again.”
― The Tempest
Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears; and sometime voices,
That, if I then had waked after long sleep,
Will make me sleep again: and then, in dreaming,
The clouds methought would open, and show riches
Ready to drop upon me; that, when I waked,
I cried to dream again.”
― The Tempest
“I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”
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“Once they are aroused, once they are determined, nothing on earth and nothing in heaven will make women give way; it is impossible.”
― Freedom or death
― Freedom or death
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