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“Amory wondered how people could fail to notice that he was a boy marked for glory, and when faces of the throng turned toward him and ambiguous eyes stares into his, he assumed the most romantic of expressions and walked on the air cushions that lie on the asphalts of fourteen.”

“No one who is closed off from mathematics can ever grasp the full significance of the natural order that is woven so deeply into the fabric of physical reality.”

‘He opened his eyes, which had been wide open all the time, but had seen only thoughts’

‘Human beings have such imperfect means of communication, (…) they will yet endure ridicule and misunderstanding rather than keep any experience to themselves.’

‘A love of Nature, was inborn in her’

Quotes 3
‘It was the fatal nature of this disease to substitute a phantom for reality, so that Orlando, to whom fortune had given every gift-plate, (…) had only to open a book for the whole vast accumulation to turn to mist.’

‘They must have aureoles for hair, incense for breath, and roses must grow between their lips’

‘He alone is free; he alone is truthful; he alone is at peace.’

Lovely quotes part 2
‘Time went by, and Orlando, wrapped in his own dreams, thought only of the pleasures of life; of his jewel; of her rarity; of means for making her irrevocably and indissolubly his own.’

‘Has the finger of death to be laid on the tumult of life from time to time lest it render us asunder? Are we so made that we have to take death in small doses daily or we could not go on?’

Lovely quotes part 1
‘Innocence, simplicity, were all the more dear to her for the dark background she set them against.’

‘Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy’

‘For in all she said, however open she seemed and voluptuous, there was something hidden; in all she did, however daring, there was something concealed.’

‘You’re not gonna change any of them by talkin’ right, they’ve got to want to learn themselves, and when they don’t want to learn there’s nothing you can do but keep your mouth shut or talk their language.’

‘This case, Tom Robinson’s case, is something that goes to the essence of a man’s conscience - Scout, I couldn’t go to church and worship God if I didn’t try to help that man’

O my freaking gosh i love reading ts