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“You your own best thing, Sethe. You are.”
― Beloved
― Beloved
“Why, Mr Stevens, why, why, why do you always have to pretend?”
― The Remains of the Day
― The Remains of the Day
“I really tried, or so I thought, to avoid lying, but it seemed to me that they forced it on me by the difference in their vision of things, so that I was always transposing reality for them into something they could understand.”
― Memories of a Catholic Girlhood
― Memories of a Catholic Girlhood
“Imagine having a mother who worries that you read too much. The question is, what is it that's supposed to happen to people who read too much? How can you tell when someone's crossed the line.”
― Boy, Snow, Bird
― Boy, Snow, Bird
“While customarily splling coffee grounds all over the counter, I spotted a can in the corner whose red label read SADNESS. Was there so much of it they could can it and sell it? A bolt of pain went through my intestines before I realized that it was not SADNESS but SARDINES.”
― The Lazarus Project
― The Lazarus Project
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