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“But I won't have you think my heart was broken because it was a man I loved. My heart was broken because I am alive.”
― Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

“It was good of you to come," he said. He did not say: please come back to me soon.”
― Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

“He had the ease of a creature never told it was a sinner from the womb.”
― Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

“I'm already coming to know you, whether you like it or not. A little mad, I think; handsome and rich; bad-tempered and clever and miserably in love. And I'm mad too, I suppose, talking to a dead woman—what's got into me?”
― Sarah Perry, Enlightenment