The child was very big, not a wearish little thing as you might have expected from her mother’s stature, and very fair of skin. You would have thought she made bright all the corner of the room in which she lay. She slept (tiny was the
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Aeneas and Briseis were perfectly beautiful and well-behaved as infants. They slept peacefully all through the night from the very beginning and always had a smile or a giggle for anyone who came to see them.
“As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys”
― The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
― The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
“She had a remarkable voice which didn’t go with her face at all, a melodious, quavering voice. She said, “If you go slowly, you risk getting sunstroke. But if you go too fast, you work up a sweat and then catch a chill inside the church.” She was right. There was no way out.”
― The Stranger
― The Stranger
“If others had not been foolish, we should be so.”
― The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
― The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
“Folly is the cloak of knavery.”
― The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
― The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
“As the caterpiller chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys.”
― The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
― The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
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