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“All of our waste which we dumped on her and which she absorbed”
― The Bluest Eye
― The Bluest Eye
“Paulie sat up behind me. “Why are you cleaning a rented house?” she called. My mother stopped. “Because that’s what life is, honey.”
― A Doubter's Almanac
― A Doubter's Almanac
“New York was inexorable in its condemnation of business irregularities. So far there had been no exception to its tacit rule that those who broke the law of probity must pay; and every one was aware that even Beaufort and Beaufort’s wife would be offered up unflinchingly to this principle.”
― The Age of Innocence
― The Age of Innocence
“The adult world moved around us the way fetid water in a fish tank surrounds the little fish within.”
― Sugar in My Bowl: Real Women Write About Real Sex – A Provocative Anthology Exploring Desire, Bedroom Lives, and Candor
― Sugar in My Bowl: Real Women Write About Real Sex – A Provocative Anthology Exploring Desire, Bedroom Lives, and Candor
“The very houses seemed disposed to pack up and take trips. Wonderful Members of Parliament, who, little more than twenty years before, had made themselves merry with the wild railroad theories of engineers, and given them the liveliest rubs in cross-examination, went down into the north with their watches in their hands, and sent on messages before by the electric telegraph, to say that they were coming.”
― Dombey and Son
― Dombey and Son
500 Great Books By Women
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