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“So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.”
― Looking for Alaska
― Looking for Alaska
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― 1984
― 1984
“A pretty sight, a lady with a book.”
― We Have Always Lived in the Castle
― We Have Always Lived in the Castle
“I can't help it when people are frightened," says Merricat. "I always want to frighten them more.”
― We Have Always Lived in the Castle
― We Have Always Lived in the Castle
“I hated the mountains and the hills, the rivers and the rain. I hated the sunsets of whatever colour, I hated its beauty and its magic and the secret I would never know. I hated its indifference and the cruelty which was part of its loveliness. Above all I hated her. For she belonged to the magic and the loveliness. She had left me thirsty and all my life would be thirst and longing for what I had lost before I found it.”
― Wide Sargasso Sea
― Wide Sargasso Sea
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