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"The house was quiet and the world was calm. / The reader became the book ; and summer night // Was like the conscious being of the book. / The house was quiet and the world was calm."

"I have no words;
My voice is in my sword [...]"
(V,viii)

"Thou liest, thou shag-eared villain!"
"What, you egg!"
(VI,ii)

"Naught 's had, all 's spent,
Where our desire is got without content:
'T is safer to be that which we destroy,
Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy."

(Act three, Scene II)

What a great insult: "Hag-seed" (p. 39).

Also, great convo: "How did you escap'dst?" – "Swam ashore, man, like a duck" (p. 60).

"Han er fuld av stemning, hans hjerne ligger som en uhøstet vild have hvor det damper av jorden [...]"

"Hvorfor svarte du ikke? sa hun. Det var vel ikke nødvendig å svare når jeg trodde du ikke så meg, sa jeg. Jeg kunne jo vært et helt annet sted" (s. 13).

'A statute is written to entrap meaning, a poem to escape it' (p. 414).

'By day he walks around like an illustration from the Book of Job' (p. 413).

'The word 'however' is like an imp coiled under your chair. It induced ink to form words you have not yet seen, and lines to march across the page and overshoot the margin' (p. 482).

"When Steven comes into a room, the furnishings shrink for him. Chair scuttle backwards. Joint-stools flatten themselves like pissing bitches" (p. 37).

"There is a pause, while she turns the great pages of her volume of rage, and puts her finger on just the right word" (p. 106).