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"Mallory, I have spent the last five weeks detained without trial while my home and office were searched for evidence of conspiracy, answering very boring and repetitive questions about my loyalty to crown and country. Forgive me if I didn't mail a letter. They might be good with trains, these fascists, but they're quite stingy with postage."

"Ka tüdrukud peavad õppima juba ette vältima olukordi, millest poiss võiks liiga palju välja lugeda. Lubadust, mida sa ei ole ise kunagi andnud, vaid mis on iseenesest teise peas sündinud, on raske tagasi võtta."

"Ja mis siis, kui klassis oleks õpetajaks mees, kes on rindel ilma jäänud käest või jalast? Kas teda laidetaks selle pärast, et ta midagi teistmoodi teeb? Või on meeste vigastused sangarlikud ohvrid, samal ajal kui naise haigused on märk puudulikkusest?"

"It dawns on Margot that, old as she is, it’s her mother’s first time
on this earth, too."

"We’re all dying from the day we are born, it’s only ever a matter of time.
Life sentences us all to death in the end." - uhhh, cringe!

“What happened to them?”
- “They left. Couldn’t afford to stay. The price of properties in Cornwall has
gone through the roof because of people buying holiday homes. Mum and Dad couldn’t afford to live in the village they were born in. The stress of it all was too much for them. They’re gone.”
“They died?”
- “Worse. They moved to Spain.”

“Why does it matter? To Dad, I mean. The same-name thing.”
Cora wants to say it matters because sometimes big men feel small inside. Because some people—like Gordon’s father—travel through life believing
themselves so far beyond improvement, they come to think their children, and their children’s children, should all be made in their name.

"“It’s like… the ring is inherently neutral, you know? It’s what we choose to do with it that matters.” I paused, my heart hammering against my rib cage." - Sauroni Võimusõrmus on "inherently neutral"??? What even is this shit?

"Ruby never drove us; getting to school was another daily exercise in independence that she insisted would build character. [---] For me, at that point in my life, it was a walk. About a mile, a distance that seemed to stretch endlessly before me on those bitterly cold Utah
mornings when the wind cut right through my coat. [--- ]" - Ameeriklased...

The lack of action left him free to publish: Flinn next blamed the girls’ ‘improper diet’ for their ‘tendency to store radium in their bones’.

"Peg settled back at her desk in the studio without worry, however, picking up her brush and licking her lips in preparation for painting. She wasn’t at all concerned; the company, she was sure, would tell her if anything was wrong." - Ohhhh sweet summer child...

"See polegi koht, see on põrgu pärasoolikas! Oh Issand Jeesus Kristus, jumala ainus poeg ja rõõm, hoia mind tugevasti lõõgapidi, et ma ei satuks enam iialgi siia neetud paika! Siin röövitakse inimene paljaks ning peksa saab ta pealegi!"

"Mr. Pennyrake took a moment to consider. He eyed the basket, wondering which of his children this creature intended to take. Clara was the most trying to his patience as a rule, but then again, as son and heir, Henry was so far proving a bit of a disappointment. He supposed Mrs. Pennyrake would find it an inconvenience to replace either one of them."

"Parents should engage the old grey matter before deciding to foist unusal names upon their children, no matter how exotically appealing they think them to be."

Dracula (1931), meanwhile, was specifically targeted at women, positioned as a dark, doomed and ‘strange’ love story, promising a dangerous kind of titillation. It was released on Valentine’s Day and made Bela Lugosi into a bona fide sex symbol, setting up Dracula as an erotic icon far removed from the pointy-eared creature in Nosferatu.

As they carried on along and met more people Furlong did and did not know, he found himself asking was there any point in being alive without helping one another? Was it possible to carry on along through all the years, the decades, through an entire life, without once being brave enough to go against what was there and yet call yourself a Christian, and face yourself in the mirror?

"The menu was ambitious in conception, and Mary seemed to have taken a perverse pleasure in seeing how best she could alternate undercooking and overcooking."

To have a place tainted like that…it’s another violation on top of the original one. It happens all the time—you go walking somewhere, or swimming or running—whatever it is, your thing, the thing you enjoy—you go to a place, and it’s beautiful and unspoiled, and you are doing that thing you love, and then someone—not always a man, I suppose, but usually a man—comes along and transforms it into an ugly place.

Huvitav, millal inimesed lakkasid hoolimast, millised asjad välja näevad. Millal läbimõeldud disain tähtsusetuks muutus? Kas ühel päeval kogunes enamik ehitajaid ja disainereid kokku ja otsustas, et sitta kah? Sel pole enam tähtsust. Keda huvitab? Seinad, katus, uks, aknad (võib-olla) ja muud polegi vaja. Selles suhtes, et päriselt ka.. Sitta kah. Siin on teile üks hoone, pange lihtsalt asjad sisse ja müüge see maha.

Ma vihkan seda, et maailm on muutunud nii argiseks. Väga paljud inimesed kannavad õhtul linna peale minnes või teatris samu riideid, mida nad kannavad kodus, ja enamasti on need T-särk ja teksad või suisa dressipüksid. [---] Vaadakem tõele näkku: tänapäeva täiskasvanud käivad riides nagu lapsed.

See peab olema viimane Joona Linna raamat, sest ma päriselt ka ei suuda neid enam lugeda, aga ma mingist masohhislikust huvist alati võtan lõpuks värskeima kätte, kuigi ma kahetsen seda pärast... Nagu.. 21. peatükk - mis siin toimub?!