Then all at once there they’d be again, the indifferent, burning eyes of the strangers. Or my mother’s eyes. Again my world would be suddenly transformed, fixed like a rose with a nail through it, space hurtling coldly out from me in all
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“I know what "nothing" means, and keep on playing.”
― Play It As It Lays
― Play It As It Lays
“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
“Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.”
― Orlando
― Orlando
“He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.”
― Orlando
― Orlando
“There is such a thing as looking through a person's eyes into the heart, and learning more of the height, and breadth, and depth of another's soul in one hour than it might take you a lifetime to discover, if he or she were not disposed to reveal it, or if you had not the sense to understand it.”
― The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
― The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
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