Aparna Singh
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“What can I ever know about you, beyond what I see?’ See was the least of the words she might have chosen, but the safest. Tell me something that only I will ever know, was perhaps what she wanted to ask him, or, What will you give me to remember you by?—or, even, Nothing of the least importance has ever belonged to me; can you help? Then she wondered if she had been foolish, or bold, amazed at her own thoughts, but he only stared down at the leaf he held in his hands and frowned a little, as one who devotes himself completely to an absorbing problem.”
― The Haunting of Hill House
― The Haunting of Hill House
“Want,’ she told her, in a measured tone, ‘is an interesting word. It means lack. Sometimes if we fill that lack with something else the original want disappears entirely.”
― The Midnight Library
― The Midnight Library
“Nothing irrevocable had yet been spoken, but there was only the barest margin of safety left them; each of them moving delicately along the outskirts of an open question, and, once spoken, such a question—as ‘Do you love me?’—could never be answered or forgotten.”
― The Haunting of Hill House
― The Haunting of Hill House
“Am I the public conscience? Expected always to say in cold words what the rest of them are too arrogant to recognise?”
― The Haunting of Hill House
― The Haunting of Hill House
“Love and laughter and fear and pain are universal currencies.”
― The Midnight Library
― The Midnight Library
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