There was a man just adventuring upon it this evening in a rude, original, what you may call Aroostook wagon, — a mere seat, with a wagon swung under it, a few bags on it, and a dog asleep to watch them. He offered to carry a message for us
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“Sometimes you terrify me,” he says. But he is smiling, so it is fine.”
― The Water Cure
― The Water Cure
“She was dying to look, but she supposed that if she lived her life properly then by the time it was over she’d know what was in it. That was sort of the whole point, wasn’t it? To understand your own story? Reading the book now would just be cheating. And what kind of jackass cheats at life?”
― The Magician's Land
― The Magician's Land
“At a very early period she had apprehended the instinctively the dual life - that outward existence which conforms, the inward life which questions.”
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“Ruth had been right: Madame was afraid of us. But she was afraid of us in the same way someone might be afraid of spiders. We hadn’t been ready for that. It had never occurred to us to wonder how we would feel, being seen like that, being the spiders.”
― Never Let Me Go
― Never Let Me Go
“Still it was nothing new, white folks seemed always to expect you to know those things which they’d done everything they could think of to prevent you from knowing.”
― Invisible Man
― Invisible Man
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