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What was it to love someone, what was love exactly, and why did it end or not end? Those were the real questions, and who could answer them?  (Was Quotes) Happiness was like a green vine spreading through her, stretching fine tendrils, bearing flowers through her flesh  (Was Quotes) He must have known me if he had seen me as he was won't to see me, for he was in the habit of flogging me constantly. Perhaps he did not recognize me by my face  (Was Quotes) I wondered. What did she think of our attempts to persuader ourselves that this was life and that we were really living it?  (Was Quotes) To have her meals, and her daily walk, and her fill of novels, and to be left alone, was all that she asked of the gods  (Was Quotes) When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic, yearning for the lost pleasure of books. It is not a yearning that one ever expects to be fulfilled  (Was Quotes) She was as one who, in madness, was resolute to throw herself from a precipice, but to whom some remnant of sanity remained which forced her to seek those who would save her from herself  (Was Quotes) The dusky and faintly sweet smell of her perfume came to Therese again, a smell suggestive of dark green silk, that was hers alone, like the smell of a special flower  (Was Quotes) What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?... Was ever anything so civil?  (Was Quotes) There was very much in the whole affair of which he would not be proud as he led his bride to the altar; - but a man does not expect to get four thousand pounds a year for nothing  (Was Quotes) He remembered deciding then that the world was full of Simon Legrees, and that you had to be an animal, as tough as the gorillas who worked with him at the warehouse, or starve  (Was Quotes) I had lost relationships with my dad, my brother and sister and I was just like, you know what, this is definitely the time to just get it together and so that's what I did  (Was Quotes) Emmeline didn't call me anything. She didn't need, for I was always there. You only need names for the absent  (Was Quotes) Of course he had committed forgery; - of course he had committed robbery. That, indeed, was nothing, for he had been cheating and forging and stealing all his life  (Was Quotes) Clothing was something I always wanted to do. I've been pulling tear sheets from magazines since I was a little girl  (Was Quotes) He was one of those men who, as in youth they are never very young, so in age are they never very old  (Was Quotes) But she had that laugh, and the sound of it was so beautiful that when you heard it, it was as if your eyes saw her through your ears and she was transformed  (Was Quotes) To anyone who took the trouble to look, I was plainly visible, but when people are expecting to see nothing, that is usually what they see  (Was Quotes) Once upon a time there was a fairy godmother, but the rest of the time there was none. This story is about one of those other times  (Was Quotes) I don't trust valets, waiters - nobody. I don't waste my time anymore trying to figure out who leaks things to the press  (Was Quotes) Must we be strangers, you and I, because there was a time in which we were almost more than friends?  (Was Quotes) Oh my God. I just hung around with an unpretty person. Excuse me while I go home to scrub myself with expensive body wash and a pink loofah, to rid myself of the unpretty germs  (Was Quotes) A man captivated by wiles was only captivated for a time, whereas a man won by simplicity would be won forever - if he, himself, were worth the winning  (Was Quotes) I'd expected that I would expand to fit the experience automatically, that I would get my first glimpse of the person I was destined to be  (Was Quotes) Every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is growing or swelling  (Was Quotes) Oh, that that old man in Westmoreland would die and be gathered to his fathers, now that he was full of years and ripe for the sickle! But there was no sign of death about the old man  (Was Quotes) The funeral was over, at last I could cry. Except that I couldn't. My tears, kept in too long, had fossilized. They would have to stay in forever now  (Was Quotes) I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty  (Was Quotes) Today was the first day of the rest of my life. It was okay, I think the second day of the rest of my life will be better  (Was Quotes) She was one of those invalids who has to lie down a lot, and sometimes can't lift a bread knife, but can shift a mahogany wardrobe if the fancy is upon her to see it in a different place  (Was Quotes)
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