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“I was assailed by memories of a life that wasn't mine anymore, but one in which I'd found the simplest and most lasting joys: the smells of summer, the part of town I loved, a certain evening sky, Marie's dresses and the way she laughed.”
― The Stranger
― The Stranger
“And there is enchantment in the very hour I am now spending with you. Who can tell what a dark, dreary, hopeless life I have dragged on for months past? Doing nothing, expecting nothing; merging night in day; feeling but the sensation of cold when I let the fire go out, of hunger when I forgot to eat: and then a ceaseless sorrow, and, at times, a very delirium of desire to behold my Jane again. Yes: for her restoration I longed, far more than for that of my lost sight. How can it be that Jane is with me, and says she loves me? Will she not depart as suddenly as she came? To-morrow, I fear I shall find her no more.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
“After all, Bao Bomu says, what is the past but what we choose to remember?”
― The Bonesetter's Daughter
― The Bonesetter's Daughter
“I had been right, I was still right, I was always right. I had lived my life one way and I could just as well have lived it another. I had done this and I hadn't done that. I hadn't done this thing but I had done another. And so?”
― The Stranger
― The Stranger
“Jane, I never meant to wound you thus...Will you ever forgive me?"
Reader, I forgave him at the moment and on the spot.”
― Jane Eyre
Reader, I forgave him at the moment and on the spot.”
― Jane Eyre
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