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It’s just that he’s on my side, he doesn’t tell me what to do, he just talks to the kids and digs the spuds and I don’t have to—” She stopped. “Don’t have to what?” “Earn my existence all the time,”
“Suddenly she aroused herself and exclaimed, "But I'll shake it off. Yes, I will shake it off! No one shall know my suffering. I'll be bitterly merry, and ironically gay, and I'll laugh in derision! - Eustacia Vye”
― The Return of the Native
― The Return of the Native
“I don't think I ever met anyone more entirely civilized - T E Lawrence”
― Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations
― Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations
“...but while you are wondering whether she be angel or devil, she is gone.”
― Persian Pictures: From the Mountains to the Sea
― Persian Pictures: From the Mountains to the Sea
“After a while, when he finished telling his stories, they broke bread to bind their friendship and shared salt as a promise of his tribe’s protection.”
― Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia
― Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia
“Sunshine - sunshine! tedious, changeless, monotonous. Not that discreet English Sunshine which varies its charm with clouds, with rainbows, with golden mist... here the sun has ceased trying to please so venerable a world.”
― Persian Pictures: From the Mountains to the Sea
― Persian Pictures: From the Mountains to the Sea
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