“Never in her life – she could swear it from the bottom of her soul – had she ever intended to do wrong; yet these hard judgments had come. Whatever her sins, they were not sins of intention, but of inadvertence, and why should she have been punished so persistently?”
― Tess of the D’Urbervilles
― Tess of the D’Urbervilles
“A lot of people lacked that gift: knowing when to fuck off.”
― Gone Girl
― Gone Girl
“Truth has no temperature.”
― The Counsellor
― The Counsellor
“She wanted—what some people want throughout life—a grief that should deeply touch her, and thus humanize and make her capable of sympathy.”
― The Scarlet Letter
― The Scarlet Letter
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