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Lady Jane
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“She sat in her chair, eyes closed. She liked to be the last one to leave. She despised crowds, and their opinions as they left a performance, or worse, discussed the wait for the bathroom or where do you want to eat. It spoiled her mood. She was still in that other world, she would stay there as long as she possibly could, the parallel channels twining and tunneling through her cortex like coral.”
― White Oleander
― White Oleander
“She was breaking her rules. They weren't stone after all, only small and fragile as paper cranes.... I understood why she held to them so hard. Once you break the first one, they all broke, one by one, like firecrackers exploding in your face in a parking lot on the Fourth of July.”
― White Oleander
― White Oleander
“It was napoleon who once observed how easy it is to win men over through flattery simply by bequeathing a title to them or pinning a metal or token on their chest.”
― Codex Magica: Secret Signs, Mysterious Symbols, and Hidden Codes of the Illuminati
― Codex Magica: Secret Signs, Mysterious Symbols, and Hidden Codes of the Illuminati
“The way Starr felt in church, that's how I felt at the art museum, both safe and elevated.”
― White Oleander
― White Oleander
“He lived in sight of both worlds, but he looked toward the unknown. And he was a scholar.... You can still live on that shimmering line between your old thinking and your new understanding, always in a state of learning. In the figurative sense, this is a border that is always moving-- as you advance forward in your studies and realizations, that mysterious forest of the unknown always stays a few feet ahead of you, so you have to travel light in order to keep following it. You have to stay mobile, movable, supple.”
― Eat, Pray, Love
― Eat, Pray, Love
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