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Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)

by Hilary Mantel

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Villette

by Charlotte Brontë

bookshelves: currently-reading, classics, british, victorian, fiction

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Brooke’s Quotes

“Englishmen do love to bury one thing so completely in another that the two can only be separated by force: peanuts in candy, indigo in glass, Africans in irons.”
― Lawrence Hill, The Book of Negroes

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“This is the saddest story I have ever heard.”
― Ford Madox Ford, The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion

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“We are all so afraid, we are all so alone, we all so need from the outside the assurance of our own worthiness to exist.”
― Ford Madox Ford, The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion

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“Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life—and travel—leaves marks on you.”
― Anthony Bourdain

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