“Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says, some women may feel?”
― Tess of the D’Urbervilles
― Tess of the D’Urbervilles
“Though surely to avoid attachments for fear of loss is to avoid life.”
― We Need to Talk About Kevin
― We Need to Talk About Kevin
“This hobble of being alive is rather serious, don’t you think so?”
― Tess of the D’Urbervilles
― Tess of the D’Urbervilles
“I was mortified by the prospect of becoming hopelessly trapped in someone else's story.”
― We Need to Talk About Kevin
― We Need to Talk About Kevin
“Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.”
― Tess of the D’Urbervilles
― Tess of the D’Urbervilles
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