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“I would catch her out in small lies, evasions that meant nothing except her fear of me. For every lie I would magnify into a betrayal, and even in the most open statement I would read hidden meanings. Because I couldn't bear the thought of her so much as touching another man, I feared it all the time, and I saw intimacy in the most casual movement of the hand”
— Jun 21, 2025 01:37PM
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Lyra
is 76% done
“I couldn't imitate her voice. I couldn't even caricature it: when I tried to remember it, it was anonymous - just any woman's voice. The process of forgetting her had set in. We should keep gramophone records as we keep photographs.”
— Jun 22, 2025 11:33AM
Lyra
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“What are we doing to each other? Because I know that I am doing to him exactly what he is doing to me. We are sometimes so happy, and never in our lives have we known more unhappiness. It's as if we were working together on the same statue, cutting it out of each other's misery. But I don't even know the design.”
— Jun 22, 2025 08:52AM
Lyra
is on page 70 of 196
“I had expected plenty of evidence against her, hadn't I so often caught her out in lies? and now here in writing that I could believe, as I couldn't believe her voice, was the complete answer. It's a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved, when you know that there is nothing in you for anybody but a parent or a God to love.”
— Jun 22, 2025 04:36AM
Lyra
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“Hatred seems to operate the same glands as love: it even produces the same actions.”
— Jun 08, 2025 12:30AM
