“Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.”
― Anna Karenina
― Anna Karenina
“From this point on, she whispered, we will either find or lose our souls.”
― The English Patient
― The English Patient
“She lay in the dark and knew everything.”
― Atonement
― Atonement
“Sometimes when she is able to spend the night with him they are wakened by the three minarets of the city beginning their prayers before dawn. He walks with her through the indigo markets that lie between South Cairo and her home. The beautiful songs of faith enter the air like arrows, one minaret answering another, as if passing on a rumor of the two of them as they walk through the cold morning air, the smell of charcoal and hemp already making the air profound. Sinners in a holy city.”
― The English Patient
― The English Patient
“He has been disassembled by her. And if she has brought him to this, what has he brought her to?”
― The English Patient
― The English Patient
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