“The god of dirt came up to me many times and said so many wise and delectable things, I lay on the grass listening to his dog voice, crow voice, frog voice; now, he said, and now, and never once mentioned forever,”
― Dream Work
― Dream Work
“I could live there all alone, she thought, slowing the car to look down the winding garden path to the small blue front door with, perfectly, a white cat on the step. No one would ever find me there, either, behind all those roses, and just to make sure I would plant oleanders by the road. I will light a fire in the cool evenings and toast apples at my own hearth. I will raise white cats and sew white curtains for the windows and sometimes come out of my door to go to the store to buy cinnamon and tea and thread. People will come to me to have their fortunes told, and I will brew love potions for sad maidens; I will have a robin...”
― The Haunting of Hill House
― The Haunting of Hill House
“Slack your rope, Hangsaman,
O slack it for a while,
I think I see my true love coming,
Coming many a mile”
― Hangsaman
O slack it for a while,
I think I see my true love coming,
Coming many a mile”
― Hangsaman
“As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.”
― Orlando
― Orlando
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