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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”

“She’s thinking, I’m sorry, but she can’t say the words out loud. They stick to her throat because she should have said them years ago.”

“As to staying here, I don’t keep accommodations for visitors; you must share a bed with Hareton or Joseph, if you do.”

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“The yearning for him is like hunger, hollowing me. Somewhere his soul waits, but is nowhere I can reach.”

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“There was more to say, but for once we did not say it. There would be other times for speaking, tonight and tomorrow and all the days after that. He let go of my hand.”

“I could not find the words that would reach him. Perhaps there were none.”

“I do not know this man, I think. He is no one I have ever seen before. My rage towards him is hot as blood.”

“Our world was one of blood, and the honor it won; only cowards did not fight. For a prince there was no choice. You warred and won, or you warred and died.”

“This, out of all of it, was perhaps the strangest: that he was the commander now. He would be expected to know them all, their names and armor and stories. 𝙃𝙚 𝙣𝙤 𝙡𝙤𝙣𝙜𝙚𝙧 𝙗𝙚𝙡𝙤𝙣𝙜𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙢𝙚 𝙖𝙡𝙤𝙣𝙚.”

“Every atom is forever conserved; whatever is parted with must be inevitably be received somewhere. It cannot perish and it only exists for use. It can only go where it is attracted, and therefore required. We can only receive only what we give, and we may give only to those who can receive; and it remains either us to determine our rate of growth and the degree of harmony that we shall express.”

“We were like gods at the dawning of the world, and our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other.”

“His presence was like a stone in my shoe, impossible to ignore.”

Did not plan on reading this for my October TBR but my manager asked me to read it with her and it’s been on my shelf forever. I adored Circe so I am finally read to start this one 🤎