Sometimes, even when you start with the last page and you think you know everything, a book finds a way to surprise you.
“What are you feeling?”
She locked their eyes in the mirror’s reflection, provoking him. “Imagine that I’m leaving you.” She saw his body stiffen. “Imagine that this is the last time you’ll touch me.” His eyes blazed. “Imagine that you can’t do anything to stop it. Think of that, and how pissed you’d be. Would you even be angry?”
“I don’t know if it’ll be anger but if that ever happened, there would be absolute annihilation.”
32 of the Best Pride and Prejudice Quotes
“Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.”
“There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well.
“Our children never warn us that they’re thinking of growing up, one day they’re just too big to want to hold our hand, it’s just as well we never know when the last time is going to be or we’d never let go.”
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While my eyes had been clouded, and all those hand were about me, I had fancied I know not what, some happiness, drawn by my victory as a moth flies to the torch. But the faces were all the same.
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dude just invented monotheism
Now dawn unfolded a wing of flame, but Helios was still beneath the sea. All things looked light and incorporeal and the world was still. I thought I would pray before going, but did not know which altar to turn to; for the gods seemed everywhere, all saying the same word to me, as if they had been not twelve but one. I felt I had seen a mystery, yet knew not what. I was happy. Wishing to pray all gods alike, I stood where I was and lifted my hands to the sky.
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Chapter One: December
"Are you kidding me? Maybe I'm broke because of, I don't know, the gender pay gap, or years of systemic sexism limiting my job opportunities, or the fact I had to quit my last job as a nanny because the dad wouldn't stop hitting on me, or-"
And as far as I can see the world is too old for us to talk about it with our new words — We will pass just as quietly through life (passing through, passing through) as the 10th century people of this valley only with a little more noise and a few bridges and dams and bombs that wont even last a million years — The world being just what it is,
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You are entitled to know that two entities occupy your body, as in fact two similar entities occupy the body of each living person on earth.
"One of these entities is motivated by and responds to the impulse of fear. The other is motivated by and responds to the impulse of faith. For more than a year you have been driven, like a slave, by
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