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"In time ...
I will see only when I dream."

"Can you imagine it?
I'd never seen such silence in someone who was alive."

"I remember the feeling of aching love, how it seeped into my skin. Clogging the marrow in my bones and shrivelling my heart ... That was when I realized. That love was a terrible agony."

"Hundreds upon thousands of moments glitter in unison, like snowflakes whose elaborate shapes are in full view. How this is possible, I can't say. My every pain and joy, all my deep-rooted sorrows and loves, shine, not as an amalgam but as a whole comprised of distinct singularities, glowing together as one giant nebula."

"How does one endure it?
Without a fire raging in one's chest.
Without a you to return to and embrace."

"There are people who brandish their sharpest weapon as they are taking their leave. We know this from experience. They do this so as to slice the tenderest part of the person they are leaving with the precision that proximity grants us."

"Do you believe in God? I know it’s a personal question. I do. And I think He was pretty awesome to make relativity a thing, don’t you? The faster you go, the less time you experience. It’s like He’s inviting us to explore the universe, you know?"

"But, for all that - for all his savage words, he could have thrown himself at her feet, and kissed the hem of her garment."

"Margaret caught one glance at his face before he went. When he was gone, she thought she had seen the gleam of unshed tears in his eyes.."

this man 😭

"He dreaded lest he should go forwards to meet her, with his arms held out in mute entreaty that she would come and nestle there, as she had done, all unheeded, the day before, but never unheeded again."

"I dare not hope. I never was fainthearted before; but I cannot believe such a creature cares for me.
...
But I know she does not care for me. I shall put myself at her feet - I must. If it were but one chance in a thousand - or a million - I should do it."

"Mr Thornton felt that in this influx no one was speaking to Margaret, and was restless under this apparent neglect. But he never went near her himself; he did not look at her. Only, he knew what she was doing - or not doing - better than he knew the movements of any one else in the room."

"She fell asleep, hoping for some brightness, either internal or external. But if she had known how long it would be before the brightness came, her heart would have sunk low down."

Time for a reread of my comfort book

wE cOuLd Be ReLaTeD!!
this better not be going the way i think it's going

"It was odd, she thought, how if one was alone, one leant to things, inanimate things; trees, streams, flowers; felt they expressed one; felt they became one; felt they knew one, in a sense were one; felt an irrational tenderness thus (she looked at that long steady light) as for oneself."

Very well written, but make every sentence that long and complicated and make it 200 pages.

'i shall hate red-haired people for the rest of my life'

"there was something in the handsome and well-dressed agent's tone and manner inexpressibly irritating to the squire"
same same

"Osbourne was once a little boy, and she was once alive - and I was once a good master - a good master - yes! It is all past now."

Poor Squire Hamley 😭

'i would rather never be married at all,' thought she, 'than marry an ugly man, - and dear good Roger is really ugly; i don't think one could even call him plain'
welp, these two aren't getting together anytime soon

"he only looked upon Molly as a badly dressed, and rather awkward girl" No! Bad Roger!

time to start the 800 pages, i'll be here a while