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“My sister Cordelia's last report said that she was not only the worst girl in the school, but the worst there had ever been in the memory of the oldest nun.”
― Brideshead Revisited
― Brideshead Revisited
“Whenever you turn your head, your deaths dodge behind you. Wherever you look, they hide. They hide in a teacup. Or in a dewdrop. Or in a breath of wind.”
― The Amber Spyglass
― The Amber Spyglass
“I accepted games (quite a number of boys do) as one of the necessary evils of life, comparable to Income Tax or the Dentist.”
― Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
― Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
“The ugliest man alive is an angel of beauty compared with the loveliest of the dead.”
― Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
― Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
“Just as the fingers of an old man’s hands at rest still curl inwards in memory of the time they spent balled into fists inside his mother’s womb, so our hands receive handaxes from half a million years ago as though those tools were made to fill the space left empty by all the years.”
― A History of Ancient Britain
― A History of Ancient Britain
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