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“With stars in her eyes and veils in her hair, with cyclamen and wild violets-what nonsense was he thinking? She was fifty at least; she had eight children. Stepping through fields of flowers and taking to her breast buds that had broken and lambs that had fallen; with the stars in her eyes and the wind in her hair—He had hold of her bag.”

“All at once he realized this: it was this:—she was the most beautiful person he had ever seen.”

I relate to Mureth a bit too much

I can't walk this island at night, not once, without seeing my daughter looming up ahead, out of my reach. I couldn't give Grace a father or a home or even the assurance that I loved her. But Grinne, please God, can get all of it. Everything I've been saving and hoarding like a miserly woman in my heart, all these long years.

Ok, so I’m reading this domestic novel from 1857 and I’m having a silly goofy time so I thought I’d start listing the funniest conflicts from each chapter

1. Going to a Catholic Church (also thinking that there’s a 25 ¢ admission fee lol)
2. Going to a circus 😱
3. Getting drunk! 😵‍💫
4. Fixing a wayward boy by SENDING HIM TO THE NAVY. (Cue Navy by the Village People)

“No bodily intimacy ever existed between us; in its place was this contact of two minds closely intermingled.”

“We talk much of the dreams of youth. Too often we forget its scheming. That too is a form of dream, and there is no less extravagant than the others.”

“A handsome face was my conqueror.”

“Life was to me a horse to whose motion one yields, but only after having trained the animal to the utmost.”