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“I have yet to learn that nothing in this world can ever match the marvels that we conjure up in our own minds.”

“Why are we so slow to see this, why do we assume that the easiest thing in the world to know and judge one another? Why, when we are reluctant even to describe a wedge of cheese we are seeing for the first time, do we draw our final conclusions from our first encounters with people, and happily dismiss them?”

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“He was, I thought, too timid ever to dare explore his soul, let alone express it.”

“Emotions are continually affecting our thought processes and decisions, below the level of our awareness. And the most common emotion of them all is desire for pleasure and the avoidance of pain.”

In my romance era ♡

“Robin found himself in the impossible position of loving that which he betrayed, twice.”

“He’d just registered what this most mundane and extraordinary moment ment- that in the space of several weeks, they had become what he never found in Hampstead, what he thought he’d never have again after Canton; a circle of people he loved so fiercely his chest hurt when he thought about them.”

“By the time they’d finished their tea, they were almost in love with each other- not quite yet, because true love took time and memories, but as close to love as first impressions could take them.”

“Dickens’s serials were well and fun, but what a pleasure it was to hold the weight of an entire, finished story in his hands.”

“Robin was not too young to understand that there were some truths that could never be uttered, that life as normal was only possible if they were never acknowledged.”

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“I said his heaven would be only half alive, and he said mine would be drunk; I said I should fall asleep in his, and he said he could not breathe in mine”

“He wanted to lie in ecstasy of peace; I wanted all to sparkle, and dance in glorious jubilee.”

“for she could be soft and mild as a dove, and she had a gentle voice, and pensive expression: her anger was never furious; her love never fierce; it was deep and tender.”

“You said I killed you—haunt me, then!”

“I was weeping as much for him as her; we do sometimes pity creatures that have none of the feeling either for themselves or others.”

“His young and fair features were almost deathlike as those of the form beside him, and almost as fixed; but his was the hush of exhausted anguish, and hers was of perfect peace.”

“I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free… and laughing at injuries, not maddening under them!”

“He took a seat opposite of Catherine, who kept her gaze fixed on him as she feared he would vanish if she were to remove it.”

“Noticing small changes early helps you adapt to the bigger changes that are to come.”

“Sometimes Hem, things change and they are never the same again. This looks like one of those times. That’s life! Life moves on. And so should we”

“Haw was getting tired of just waiting for their situation to improve. He began to see the longer they stayed in their situation, the worse off they would be.”

“So he shall never know I love him; and that, not because he’s handsome, but because he’s more myself than I. Whatever souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”

“Ah, I thought, there will be no saving him — he is doomed, and flies to his fate!”

“I saw the quarrel had merely defected a closer intimacy- had broken the outworks of youthful timidity, and enable them to forsake the disguise of friendship, and confess themselves lovers.”

“Yes, you had a reason of going to bed with a proud heart and empty stomach. Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves”