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“And then you realize one day that you can't remember her scent and nothing smells like her anymore. You can't remember how she feels or the sound of her voice. You haven't thought of her every seco...”
“The arrogant man probably thought his path to heaven was already assured, and that he acted in accordance to Gods will just by breathing.”
“Pretty thoughts= Pretty actions”
“They began collecting dishes and clearing the table while Swanny sat and watched them in confusion. Now wait a minute. I was forbidden to help and was ordered to maintain my station, but you guys a...”
“I killed little Esmerelda because I felt I owed it to myself and to the world in general. I had, after all, accounted for two male children and thus done womankind something of a statistical favour...”
“I switched the light out again. The room was totally dark, not even the starlight showing while my eyes adjusted. Perhaps I would ask for one of those LED alarm radios, though Im very fond of my ol...”
“Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can't even finish my second apple pie.”
“Oh, adjust yourself. You people have spent ten millennia playing at soldiers while becoming ever more dedicated civilians. We've spent the last thousand years trying hard to stay civilian while ref...”
“An intelligence completely dissociated from the physical, or at least an impression of it, was a strange, curiously limited and almost perverse thing, and the precise form that your physicality too...”
“Don't worry,' she told him. 'I am exceptionally good at keeping secrets.'- Frankie Landau-Banks”
“Secrets are more powerful when people know you've got them," said Mr. Sutton. "You show them the tiniest edge of your secret, but the rest you keep under wraps.”
“You are corrupting me, Theo." "But you like being corrupted, don't you, sweet girl?”
“You are corrupting me, Theo. But you like being corrupted, don't you, sweet girl?”
“One song bled into another and they remained locked together, neither willing to break the intimacy that surrounded them, concealing them in the small space the two occupied.”
“There is a great deal in choosing colours that go well with one's complexion. People think of that for their dresses, but not for their rooms., which are of so much more importance. I should have l...”
“As she stepped into the steamboat at Dover which was to convey her to scenes so new, Lucilla felt more and more that she who held the reorganisation of society in Carlingford in her hands was a wom...”
“Then there rose up before her a vision of a parish saved, a village reformed, a county reorganised, and a triumphant election at the end, the recompense and crown of all, which should put the gover...”
“... Miss Marjoribanks was of the numerous class of religionists who keep up civilities with heaven, and pay all the proper attentions, and show their respect for the divine government in a manner b...”
“As a mother you have thoughts. You get interrupted. You forget.You are distracted. Your thoughts and ideas become fragmented,diluted, or simply evaporate. You must have faith that you willagain hav...”
“There is something about the very idea of a city which is central to the understanding of a planet like Earth, and particularly the understanding of that part of the then-existing group-civilizatio...”
