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I could not tell them the truth of myself; perhaps nobody can tell the world the truth.
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My devil had been long caged, he came out roaring.
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I’m not flailing now, as my muscles are rigid with the tension of holding myself together. The pain over my heart returns, and from it I imagine tiny fissures spreading out into my body. Through my torso, down my arms and legs, over my face, leaving it criss-crossed with cracks.
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Has my beauty brought me to this? Have I plotted and schemed to shield myself, and lain awake in the long deadly nights trembling to think of my dangers, for this?
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I have made up my mind that I must have money, Pa. I feel that I can’t beg it, borrow it, or steal it; and so I have resolved that I must marry it.
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When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.
One of my favourite quotations, I have it on my wall :)
(via firstwordsofbooks)
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That was the trouble with truth, unfortunately. The supply always exceeded the demand.
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No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.
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Currently reading…
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Submitted by thatssoraybans
Everyone needs to read this book. It’s a really cleverly written book but not many people know about it.
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you clutched me by the shoulder and dashed me away, right against the wall there, with such force, that I thought I had bitten my tongue in two, and expected to see the place plastered with my brains; and when I put my hand to my head and found my skull not broken, I thought it was a miracle and no mistake.
Fergus Markham, ladies and gentlemen. Overreacting with the best of them since 1848.
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one of my favorite, if not my favorite, quotes from the book. couldn’t get this book out of my head for days after reading it!