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“I have a strange feeling with regard to you. As if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly knotted to a similar string in you. And if you were to leave I'm afraid that cord of communion would snap. And I have a notion that I'd take to bleeding inwardly. As for you, you'd forget me.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
“No matter how much he loved someone, he still couldn't share his life with them. He needed solitary time every day to concentrate, and he couldn't stand it when someone's presence threw off his concentration. If he lived with someone he knew he would end up detesting them. Whether it was his parents, a wife, or children. He feared that above all. He wasn't afraid of loving someone. What he feared was growing to hate someone.”
― Killing Commendatore
― Killing Commendatore
“Our lives really do seem strange and mysterious when you look back on them. Filled with unbelievably bizarre coincidences and unpredictable, zigzagging developments. While they are unfolding, it’s hard to see anything weird about them, no matter how closely you pay attention to your surroundings. In the midst of the everyday, these things may strike you as simply ordinary things, a matter of course. They might not be logical, but time has to pass before you can see if something is logical.”
― Killing Commendatore
― Killing Commendatore
“إن المحبة المحدودة تطلب امتلاك المحبوب ، أما المحبة غير المتناهيةة فلا تطلب غير ذاتها . المحبة التي تجيء بين يقظة الشباب وغفلته تستكفي باللقاء وقنع بالوصل وتنمو بالقبل و العناق ، أما المحبة التي تولد في أحضان اللانهاية وتهبط مع أسرار الليل فلا تقنع بغير الأبدية . ولا تستكفي بغير الخلود ولا تقف متهيبة أمام شيء سوى الألوهية ..”
― الأجنحة المتكسرة
― الأجنحة المتكسرة
“Female psychopaths, researchers eventually realized, don't present like the males. To which I respond: No shit. We women have an emotional wiliness that shellacs us in glossy patina of caring. We have been raised to take interest in promoting healthy interior lives of other humans; preparation, I suppose, for taking on the emotional labor of motherhood - or marriage; either way, really. Few women come into maturity unscathed by the suffocating pink press of girlhood, and even psychopaths are touched by the long, frilly arm of feminine expectations. It's not that women psychopaths don't exist; it's that we fake it better than men.”
― A Certain Hunger
― A Certain Hunger
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