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Rebecca
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Last night I dreamed I went to Manderley again. It seemed to me I stood by the iron gate leading to the drive, and for a while I could not enter, for the way was barred to me.
One of the best opening lines in literature.
We are immediately pulled in, the narrator seeming to be sympathetic and confiding in her readers, and also drawing us into a mystery.
“If my life wasn’t funny it would just be true, and that is unacceptable.”
― Wishful Drinking
― Wishful Drinking
“Nice people made the best Nazis. My mom grew up next to them. They got along, refused to make waves, looked the other way when things got ugly and focused on happier things than “politics.” They were lovely people who turned their heads as their neighbors were dragged away. You know who weren’t nice people? Resisters.”
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“name was Tom Smith and he had performed so many marriages he could recite the service in his sleep. Sometimes he did and his wife would lie in bed and listen to him, the whole service through, comforted that someone could know the words of love by heart.”
― Skylight Confessions
― Skylight Confessions
“Now this is a delusion, but it’s my delusion and I’m sticking with it. It’s sort of like: I have problems but problems don’t have me.”
― Wishful Drinking
― Wishful Drinking
“no matter how I go, I want it reported that I drowned in moonlight, strangled by my own bra.”
― Wishful Drinking: Carrie Fisher
― Wishful Drinking: Carrie Fisher
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