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And we continue

" 'She's sparkling, Aunt Catherine," said Richard pleasantly 'A sense of responsibility would spoil her. She's too pretty."

"She told herself that the years had brought her tolerance - actually they had slain what measure she had ever possessed of moral courage."

Not liking women much but

"This was so extremely good, to be about to talk to Maury - who would be happy at seeing him."

men love

The Misoginy just irks me and I am barely at the beginning

" 'Gloria's darn nice - not a brain in her head.' "

yet you're the one who cannot even remember a name

" 'Why - yes. If you don't dedicate me to the parents and dash off in the corner with Dora.'
'Not Dora - Gloria."

"giving her that acute and exaggerated attention that young males are accustomed to render to all females who are of no further value."

This book is ripping every bit of my heart 🥲

Finally! I was getting nervous. 🙈❤

I am starting to hate this book, not because it is written bad but because it's everything I ever wanted and I'm petty. 🥲

"Whenever I'm with people, no matter how great my mental or physical suffering, I try desperately to create a happy atmosphere."

"I told myself it was I, the social outlaw for whom appearances were of no importance, who would fight for the couple to the bitter end."

"I went so far as to tell myself that if this child's eyes remained closed for the rest of her life, I would give up all thoughts of literature and personal glory to be permanently at her side."

"Men are strange creatures, I thought as I tugged at the weeds."

"Fools like you just make this world all the harder to live in."

"I couldn't die. Not till I'd paid back every last loan."

"If I suffer, I don't talk about it much. I may suffer even more than before, but I wear a smile."

"Being the type of man I am, I'm never going to be successful or rich. But this home of ours is something I intend to maintain and protect."

"I have nothing worth boasting about. No learning to speak of. No talent. My body's a mess, my heart impoverished."


"A lot of people have written me off as a spoiled, selfish child, but how many really know how I've suffered inside?"

"I think it was just that the maiden was more in love than he was."

"Without the setting sun, dawn could never be born."

"For all the mindless flattery, calling him the Konoe of Aomori and whatnot, no one really knew the loneliness inside him."

"To love someone is to put your life on the line. I don't take it lightly."

" 'Thanks. I won't forget you, pal.'
My suicide was postponed for another month."

" 'If we ever loved one another, let me go with you now.' (...) "

" 'Gay,' said Puddleglum with a deep sigh. 'That's what we've got to be. Gay. (...)'

'All right. Gay's the word,' said Scrubb 'Now, if we could only get someone to open this door. While we're fooling about and being Gay, we've got to find out all we can about this castle.'

(...) 'And you must always remember there's one good thing about being trapped down here: it'll save funeral expenses.'

'Why, Froggy, you're a man.'

'Not a man... Marsh-wiggle. (...) Not frog either: Marsh-wiggle. (...) Marsh-wiggle. Marsh-wiggle. Very respectable Marsh-wiggle. Respectowiggle.'

(...) 'You'd better carry Froggy. He's had a drop more than's good for him.'

'Nothing wrong with me. Not a frog. Nothing frog with me. I'm a respectabiggle.'

(...) 'And what's that?'

'Reshpeckobiggle.' said Puddleglum.

" ( By the way, I have never yet heard how these remote islands became attached to the crown of Narnia; if I ever do, and if the story is at all interesting, I may put it in some other book.)

( I don't know what the Bearded Glass was for because I am not a magician.) "

" 'Lu, you're a hero,' said Peter. 'That's the nearest you've got today to saying I told you so. Let's get on.' "

" 'That's the worse of girls,' said Edmund to Peter and the Dwarf. 'They never carry a map in their heads.'

'That's because our heads have something inside them,' said Lucy. "