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“Humbling women seems to me a chief pastime of poets. As if there can be no story unless we crawl and weep.”
― Circe
― Circe
“If the Beast gave me a library like he gave to Belle, I’d marry him too.”
― The Ugly Stepsister
― The Ugly Stepsister
“Dimly, he remembered a view of Syon House on the other side of the river. He knew of someone who had held their wedding reception there, their wedding breakfast. The idea of a wedding breakfast seemed enchanting to him. He thought of Melody; a throng of people, the ghosts of his past, were the guests. And he saw it at last, farther away than he had thought, like a house painted onto the backdrop of a stage in muted colours. Was this why he had come? The lion on the ramparts reminded him of himself and his own inadequacies and his mane tied down. He veered off through the trees in the direction that the wind seemed to blow him. The leaves of eucalyptus, oak and pine roared at him behind his back.”
― The Madness of Love
― The Madness of Love
“I don’t think I am green. It’s true I only know what I’ve read in books, but I’ve read a great many books”
― Venetia
― Venetia
“A constant factor in human history is the need to protect oneself. Another factor is the urge to attack someone else.”
― Coastal Castles of Northumberland
― Coastal Castles of Northumberland
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