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 am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
“He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.”
― Orlando
― Orlando
“I know what "nothing" means, and keep on playing.”
― Play It As It Lays
― Play It As It Lays
“I'm sick to death of this particular self. I want another.”
― Orlando
― Orlando
“Grammar is a piano I play by ear.”
― Joan Didion: Essays & Conversations
― Joan Didion: Essays & Conversations
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