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“Secrets... nothing eats away at love faster.”
“Nothing is more terrifying than fearlessness.”
“.......only the powerful were hated, and that was what he was meant to be in this world.Powerful.”
“How ridiculous that water ran out of your eyes when your heart hurt. Tragic heroines in books tended to be amazingly beautiful. Not a word about swollen eyes or a red nose. "Crying always gives me ...”
“Women were different, no doubt about it. Men broke so much more quickly. Grief didn't break women. Instead it wore them down, it hollowed them out very slowly.”
“Elinor had read countless stories in which the main characters fell sick at some point because they were so unhappy. She had always thought that a very romantic idea, but shed dismissed it as a pur...”
“He saw so many emotions mingled on her face: anger disappointment, fear and defiance. Like her daughter, thought Fenoglio again. So uncompromising, so strong. Women were different, no doubt about ...”
“She read and read and read, but she was stuffing herself with the letters on the page like an unhappy child stuffing itself with chocolate. They didnt taste bad, but she was still unhappy.”
“Werent all books ultimately related? After all, the same letters filled them, just arranged in a different order. Which meant that, in a certain way, every book was contained in every other!”
