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“We men pass long the cost of broken windows.”

“He saw himself then as a spokesman for all the accumulated wrongs suffered in Ireland.”

“A mind of power and… yes, terrifying purpose lay behind it.”

Herbert is a master

"I enjoyed, undisturbed, the treble pleasure of having her near me, hearing the sound of her voice - a sound sweet and satisfying in my ear - and looking by intervals at her face."

My mouth dropped—it’s finally getting juicy

“But somewhere deep in her mind an idea had begun to fester—perhaps the longing for safety was itself just another kind of violence—a violence of cowardice, silence, submission. What was safety, anyway, but the sound of a bomb calling on someone else’s home?”

I’m already in love with this. Sometimes I read/watch something and curse it because it does what I wanted to do in a story of my own, but those are things I usually end up loving in the long-term, because they give structure to half-formed notions and ambitions

Maybe the most tortured book I’ve ever read

“He complained so seldom, indeed, of such stirs as these, that I really thought him not vindictive—I was deceived, completely, as you will hear.”

Weirdest vibes ever

“Self-abandoned, relaxed, and effortless, I seemed to have laid me down in the dried-up bed of a great river; I heard a flood loosened in remote mountains, and felt the torrent come… the waters came into my soul; I sank in deep mire: I felt no standing. I came into deep waters; the floods overflowed me.”

The ground has been torn from under my feet

“Are you going somewhere, Helen? Are you going home?”
“Yes; to my long home—my last home.”

Friends, teachers, and acquaintances of all kinds leave their marks on us, leaving indelible prints of influence. Everyone is a world unto their own. I appreciate the spiritual musings and the eerie atmosphere. I can’t wait to see how this develops.

“…it was a pity Mr Brocklehurst could not see them too; he would perhaps have felt that, whatever he might do with the outside of the cup and platter, the inside was further beyond his interference than he imagined.”