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"You look at love, and especially woman," she began, "as something hostile, something against which you put up a defense, even if unsuccessfully.
“At the end, all that's left of you are your possessions. Perhaps that's why I've never been able to throw anything away. Perhaps that's why I hoarded the world: with the hope that when I died, the sum total of my things would suggest a life larger than the one I lived.”
― The History of Love
― The History of Love
“Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don't.”
― Hearts in Atlantis
― Hearts in Atlantis
“Those bitter sorrows of childhood!-- when sorrow is all new and strange, when hope has not yet got wings to fly beyond the days and weeks, and the space from summer to summer seems measureless.”
― The Mill on the Floss
― The Mill on the Floss
“Girls can wear jeans and cut their hair short and wear shirts and boots because it's okay to be a boy; for girls it's like promotion. But for a boy to look like a girl is degrading, according to you, because secretly you believe that being a girl is degrading.”
― The Cement Garden
― The Cement Garden
“Each time you happen to me all over again.”
― The Age of Innocence
― The Age of Innocence
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