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“She wondered if all the firsts in her life would go by so quickly, and be forgotten just as quickly.”
― Summer Sisters
― Summer Sisters
“They say that “time assuages,”—
Time never did assuage;
An actual suffering strengthens,
As sinews do, with age.
Time is a test of trouble,
But not a remedy.
If such it prove, it prove too
There was no malady.”
― The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson
Time never did assuage;
An actual suffering strengthens,
As sinews do, with age.
Time is a test of trouble,
But not a remedy.
If such it prove, it prove too
There was no malady.”
― The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson
“The only reason I remembered this play was because it had a mad person in it, and everything I had ever read about mad people stuck in my mind, while everything else flew out.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“That was the thing about words, they were clear and specific—chair, eye, stone—but when you talked about feelings, words were too stiff, they were this and not that, they couldn't include all the meanings. In defining, they always left something out.”
― White Oleander
― White Oleander
“The hemulen woke up slowly and recognised himself and wished he had been someone he didn't know.”
― Moominvalley in November
― Moominvalley in November
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