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Matilda
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Occasionally one comes across parents who take the opposite line, who show no interest at all in their children, and these of course are far worse than the doting ones.
“God, Elizabeth, I've been doomed since the moment I watched you smack a fiend off my carriage with a crowbar.”
― Sorcery of Thorns
― Sorcery of Thorns
“Was that what it meant to lose someone? The pain never went away. It just got... covered up.”
― Sorcery of Thorns
― Sorcery of Thorns
“She sat huddled in her corner, swaying from side to side as the coach was shaken, and it seemed to her that never before had she known there was malevolence in solitude.”
― Jamaica Inn
― Jamaica Inn
“The library no more belonged to Ashcroft and his plot than Elizabeth belonged to the unknown parents who had brought her into this world. It possessed a life of its own, had become something greater than Cornelius had ever intended. For these were not ordinary books the libraries kept. They were knowledge, given life. Wisdom, given voice. They sang when starlight streamed through the library's windows. They felt pain and suffered heartbreak. Sometimes they were sinister, grotesque-but so was the world outside. And that made the world no less worth fighting for, because wherever there was darkness, there was also so much light.”
― Sorcery of Thorns
― Sorcery of Thorns
“You belonged in the library, as much as any book.”
― Sorcery of Thorns
― Sorcery of Thorns
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