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Winry Weiss
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by Bram Stoker
bookshelves:
1841-1913,
mystery-paranormal-horror,
言語-eng,
victorian-edwardian-1837-1914,
currently-reading
Reading for the 3rd time
read in August 2025
Winry Weiss said:
"
This book is truly a gem of Victorian literature. Which indeed means that the pace is slow for today's standards, it's a bit misogynistic and xenophobic, and it's so delightfully loquacious that one might side-eye the English dictionary while reading
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“In twenty years you could say and do a lot you wish you hadn't. In twenty years you could store up a lot of regrets. And then, when it was too late, when there was no one left to say "I'm sorry" to, "I didn't mean it" to, you could stop sleeping for regret, stop eating, talking, working, for regret. You could stop wanting to live. You could want to die for regret.
It was only remembering the good times that kept you from taking the knife from the kitchen drawer and, holding it so, tightly in your fist, on the bed, naked to no purpose except that that was how you came into the world and how your best moments in the world had been spent--holding it so, roll onto the blade, slowly so that it slid like love between your ribs and into that stupidly pumping muscle in your chest that kept you regretting.”
― Fadeout
It was only remembering the good times that kept you from taking the knife from the kitchen drawer and, holding it so, tightly in your fist, on the bed, naked to no purpose except that that was how you came into the world and how your best moments in the world had been spent--holding it so, roll onto the blade, slowly so that it slid like love between your ribs and into that stupidly pumping muscle in your chest that kept you regretting.”
― Fadeout
“There are moments, Jeeves, when one asks oneself, 'Do trousers matter?'"
"The mood will pass, sir.”
― The Code of the Woosters
"The mood will pass, sir.”
― The Code of the Woosters
“I'm not absolutely certain of the facts, but I rather fancy it's Shakespeare who says that it's always just when a fellow is feeling particularly braced with things in general that Fate sneaks up behind him with the bit of lead piping.”
― Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest
― Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest
“I told myself all that's wrong with us is misunderstanding. That's not good, but it's not the worst. The worst is not having anyone to have a misunderstanding with.”
― Death Claims
― Death Claims
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