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This land, like so much of the French countryside, was a painting, but Mercier felt his heart touched with melancholy and realized, not for the first time, that beautiful places were hard on lonely people.
“I took a step toward her. 'It is my right to reside in my own mind. It is my right,' I said.”
― Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
― Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
“He was not poor - he could afford ten candles & two baths a week. He wasn't going to throw himself in the Thames for the misery of it all and God knew most of London was worse off. All the same, he had a feeling life should not have been about ten candles and two baths a week.”
― The Watchmaker of Filigree Street
― The Watchmaker of Filigree Street
“history is what it is. it knows what it did. bad dog. bad blood. bad day to be a boy”
― Don't Call Us Dead: Poems
― Don't Call Us Dead: Poems
“My heart began thumping with a kind of terror, the terror of discovering you're human which is worse than any fear of the supernatural.”
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“You have to make the most of the happy endings whenever you get the chance.”
― The Winners
― The Winners
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