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“Justice," she said. " I've heard that word. It's a cold world. I tried it out," she said, still speaking in that low voice. "I wrote it down. I wrote it down several times and always it looked like a damn cold lie to me. There is no justice.”
― Wide Sargasso Sea
― Wide Sargasso Sea
“When I was out on the battlements it was cool and I could hardly hear them. I sat there quietly. I don't know how long I sat. Then I turned round and saw the sky. It was red and all my life was in it.”
― Wide Sargasso Sea
― Wide Sargasso Sea
“I have been too unhappy, I thought, it cannot last, being so unhappy, it would kill you”
― Wide Sargasso Sea
― Wide Sargasso Sea
“If this is a sad story, don’t tell it to me tonight.’‘It is not sad,’ she said. ‘Only some things happen and are there for always even though you forget why or when.”
― Wide Sargasso Sea
― Wide Sargasso Sea
“Most people are not even aware of their need to conform. They live under the illusion that they follow their own ideas and inclinations, that they are individualists, that they have arrived at their opinions as the result of their own thinking—and that it just happens that their ideas are the same as those of the majority.”
― The Art of Loving
― The Art of Loving
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