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“My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods: time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Healthcliff! He's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being.”
― Wuthering Heights
― Wuthering Heights
“A certain light was beginning to dawn dimly within her,—the light which, showing the way, forbids it.”
― The Awakening
― The Awakening
“I was the breakable one. Women always are. It's not so much a question of one big disappointment, though. It's more like a thousand little disappointments raining down on top of each other. After a while it gets to seem like a flood, and the first thing you know you're drowning.”
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“... a book is not made of sentences laid end to end, but of sentences built, if an image helps, into arcades or domes.”
― A Room of One’s Own
― A Room of One’s Own
“I have this notion that maybe this world is the hell of the angels. That maybe we're creatures with angels exiled in our souls, banished to this godawful existence, howling in despair...and all those beautiful dreams we have are only the ravings of those angels, their screams in our animal minds.”
― A Cry of Angels
― A Cry of Angels
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