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My Life in Middlemarch

by Rebecca Mead (Goodreads Author)

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Jul 28, 2018 11:01AM

“We cannot intervene in the rotation of the earth," said Delaura.
"But we could be unaware of it so that it does not cause us grief," said the Bishop.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Of Love and Other Demons

tags: homesickness

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“I had two longings and one was fighting the other. I wanted to be loved and I wanted to be always alone.”
― Jean Rhys

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“You think plants don’t have feelings? Maybe not the type of feelings you and I have, but they do have planty feelings, really slow feelings that unfold or blossom over years rather than seconds.”
― David Duchovny, Holy Cow

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“Sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

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“And the seasons they go 'round and 'round
And the painted ponies go up and down
We're captive on the carousel of time
We can't return we can only look behind
From where we came
And go round and round and round
In the circle game.”
― Joni Mitchell, The Circle Game

tags: carousels, life, time

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