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“It had been an awful thing to lose Henry the first time, to matrimony, but to discover what a false front he was capable of was another kind of blow, and it had left her almost speechless. Then the...”
“Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.”
“Mostly, what people mean by love is laziness.”
“She'd stood by that creed. No softness, because the world wasn't soft; lots of laughter, because if you were in on the joke, the joke couldn't be on you; And no wanting what you couldn't take, beca...”
“The search for truth takes you where the evidence leads you, even if, at first, you don't want to go there.”
“Romance is finding your fantasy in people who don't have it.”
“I'm too old to know everything”
“You are very harsh.''I have seen the world.”
“The world is a cruel place, Petrosinella, and it wounds the weak.”
“We dream, we wake on a cold hillside, we pursue the dream again. In the beginning was the dream, and the work of disenchantment never ends.”
“The key question, it seemed to him, was that of whether man was to obey Nature, or attempt to command her. It had been answered long, long ago, claimed Moss; man's very essence lay in the fact that...”
“Elisabeth had not had her future and her parents had not had theirs, there was nothing to this so-called future which was always promised to the young.”
“All my life I have been the sort of person in whom people confide. And all my life I have been flattered by this role - grateful for the frisson of importance that comes with receiving important in...”
“Captain Harcourt-Bruce was not only dashing, handsome, and brave, he was also rather romantic. The reappearance of magic in England thrilled him immensely. He was a great reader of the more excitin...”
“Love may precede respect but it cannot survive the loss of it.”
“If my twelve-year-old self, of whom I had grown rather fond, thinking about him, were to reproach me: 'Why have you grown up such a dull dog, when I gave you such a good start? Why have you spent y...”
“In some deep place in her heart, Caroline had kept alive the silly romantic notion that somehow David Henry had once known her as no one else ever could. But it was not true. He had never even glim...”
“We must steel ourselves against utopias and be content with a slightly better state.”
“Every day we make the whole world new... Or else grow old.”
“Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut.”
