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Redheaded people can look quite strained when they are raising eyebrows that aren’t really there.

It is no good to explain. It is weak to be anecdotal. It is wise to conceal the past even if there is nothing to conceal. A man’s power is in the half-light, in the half-seen movements of his hand and the unguessed-at expression of his face. It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.

thomas cromwell you have to stop. your smoke too bad, your bitch too different. they’ll kill you thomas cromwell

my mother and my sister have been after me for years to read this. and they were right