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Elizabeth Gaskell quote: "She never called her son by any name but John; 'love' and..."
She never called her son by any name but John; 'love' and 'dear', and such like terms, were reserved for Fanny. Elizabeth Gaskell
Still, it's an interesting technique--leaving one person behind in order to find her or him somewhere else. And *in* someone else. Caleb Carr
Amartya Sen quote: "the identity of an individual is essentially a function of her..."
the identity of an individual is essentially a function of her choices, rather than the discovery of an immutable attribute Amartya Sen
He smiled hesitantly and she smiled back in the same fashion, but he was unsettled by the thought that Muriel had undergone a transformation. Some of the stuff that had come out of her mouth lately, about God or babies, made him wonder if she’d had a brain transplant at some point in the last ten years. It was funny what happened to people after forty, when they realized that our place here on earth was leased, not owned. Scott Turow
T. E. Lawrence quote: "Many men would take the death-sentence without a whimper, to..."
Many men would take the death-sentence without a whimper, to escape the life-sentence which fate carries in her other hand. T. E. Lawrence
There must be some connection between the general nullity of Christie's prose and the tendency of her detectives to take Jewishness as a symptom of crime. Christopher Hitchens
Half a dozen brats turned with expressions of derision, and Lyra threw her cigarette down, recognizing the cue for a fight. Everyone's daemon instantly became warlike: each child was accompanied by fangs, or claws, or bristling fur, and Pantalaimon, contemptuous of the limited imaginations of these gyptian daemons, became a dragon the size of a deer hound. Philip Pullman
the mind is its own beautiful prisoner. Mind looked long at the sticky moonopening in dusk her new wingsthen decently hanged himself, one afternoon. The last thing he saw was younaked amid unnaked things... E. E. Cummings
Diane Ackerman quote: "I watched her face switch among the radio stations of memory"
I watched her face switch among the radio stations of memory Diane Ackerman
She stared up at me, and there was something in her eyes, something that said we finally had an understanding. She was afraid of me, and sometimes that’s the best you can do with people. I’d tried kindness. I’d tried friendship. I’d tried respect. But when all else fails, fear will do the job. Laurell K. Hamilton
My mother is now in the hospital 60 miles away, where they are treating her pneumonia. I refuse to feel guilty. Guilt is a destructive emotion and doesn't fit in with my Life Plan. Sue Townsend
I imagine I sow cuttings of Anna-Louise's hair, like the fine stems of dried flowers, and watch sunflowers grow from the cuttings. I imagine I bury a pocket calculator with liquid crystals spelling her name, then watch the earth shoot forth lightning bolts. 'We should open up a seafood house together,' Anna-Louise says when she wants to torture me. Now that's love. Doug Coupland
I will be very careful the next time I fall in love, she told herself. Also, she had made a promise to herself that she intended on keeping. She was never going to go out with another writer: no matter how charming, sensitive, inventive or fun they could be. They weren't worth it in the long run. They were emotionally too expensive and the upkeep was complicated. They were like having a vacuum cleaner around the house that broke all the time and only Einstein could fix it. She wanted her... Richard Brautigan
Alexandra Ripley quote: "If only' repeated again and again in her head like a battering..."
If only' repeated again and again in her head like a battering ram...'if only' could break your heart. Alexandra Ripley
Oh! s little bird told us,' said Miss Browning. Molly knew that little bird from her childhood, and had always hated it, and longed to wring its neck. Why could not people speak out and say that they did not mean to give up the name of their informant? Elizabeth Gaskell

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