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“...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.”
― Persuasion
― Persuasion
“I was pretending that I did not speak their language; on the moon we spoke a soft, liquid tongue, and sang in the starlight, looking down on the dead dried world.”
― We Have Always Lived in the Castle
― We Have Always Lived in the Castle
“I still get nightmares. In fact, I get them so often I should be used to them by now. I'm not. No one ever really gets used to nightmares.”
― House of Leaves
― House of Leaves
“It is a common saying that women are delicate creatures, flowers, eggs, anything that may be crushed in a moment's carelessness. If I had ever believed it, I no longer did.”
― Circe
― Circe
“I remember that I stood on the library steps holding my books and looking for a minute at the soft hinted green in the branches against the sky and wishing, as I always did, that I could walk home across the sky instead of through the village.”
― We Have Always Lived in the Castle
― We Have Always Lived in the Castle
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