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“Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them.”
― Gone with the Wind
― Gone with the Wind
“How closely women clutch the very chains that bind them!”
― Gone with the Wind
― Gone with the Wind
“She paints her face to hide her face. Her eyes are deep water. It is not for Geisha to want. It is not for geisha to feel. Geisha is an artist of the floating world. She dances, she sings. She entertains you, whatever you want. The rest is shadows, the rest is secret.”
― Memoirs of a Geisha
― Memoirs of a Geisha
“I can't go all my life waiting to catch you between husbands.”
― Gone with the Wind
― Gone with the Wind
“...Will, I used to come here in my Oxford and sit on this exact same bench whenever I wanted to be alone, just me and Pan. What I thought was that if you - maybe just once a year - if we could come here at the same time, just for an hour or something, then we could pretend we were close again-because we would be close, if you sat here and I sat just here in my world -"
"Yes," he said, "as long as I live, I'll come back. Whenever I am in the world, I'll come back here -”
― The Amber Spyglass
"Yes," he said, "as long as I live, I'll come back. Whenever I am in the world, I'll come back here -”
― The Amber Spyglass
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