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“Hope is the best name in the world, because it is the best quality of the human mind.”
“Is it?”
“For me, it is. It’s all I have.”
― Mark Beauregard, The Whale: A Love Story

“I hate being the holder of secrets or the bearer of gossip – thinking that people are hiding something all the time makes one liable to superstitious fancies, which is bad for the digestion.”
“I dare say. Though it would be a man of extraordinary moral fortitude who never had anything to hide.”
“If you never do anything dishonorable, you never have anything to hide,” said Holmes. “Where is the extraordinary moral fortitude in that?”
“[...] If I’d wanted to talk nonsense, I would have stayed at Harvard.”
― Mark Beauregard, The Whale: A Love Story

“You wish to be my lover. That's the name for it. But I am a stranger to that form of love."
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"I am not as steady as I may appear," said Hawthorne.”
― Mark Beauregard, The Whale: A Love Story

“If we are to be friends,” Herman said, “you must not say such things to me. You know that I love you, and you cannot toy with my affections. I will go mad.”
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“I know that you are unlike anyone I have ever met. When I am around you, I feel at liberty to express myself completely as I see fit, beacause I am quite sure you will understand me. It’s a freedom I have longed for, but I also know that what you want from me, I cannot give.”
― Mark Beauregard