It was characteristic of this lady (as of some other people before her time and since) that whenever her original proposition was questioned, she exaggerated it.
“Heather had grown up starved of love, and when you’re starved of something you should receive in abundance, you never quite trust it.”
― Nine Perfect Strangers
― Nine Perfect Strangers
“IN SUCH RISINGS of fire and risings of sea—the firm earth shaken by the rushes of an angry ocean which had now no ebb, but was always on the flow, higher and higher, to the terror and wonder of the beholders on the shore—three years of tempest were consumed.”
― A Tale of Two Cities
― A Tale of Two Cities
“Valleysmen’d not want to hear, she answered, that human hunger birthed the Civ’lize, but human hunger killed it too. I know it from other tribes offland what I stayed with. Times are you say a person’s b’liefs ain’t true, they think you’re sayin’ their lifes ain’t true an’ their truth ain’t true.”
― Cloud Atlas
― Cloud Atlas
“It looked like girls were controlled by their feelings but the opposite was true. Girls had excellent control of their feelings. They spun them around like batons: Now I’m crying! Now I’m laughing! Who knows what I’ll do next! Not you! A boy’s emotions were like baseball bats that blindsided him.”
― Nine Perfect Strangers
― Nine Perfect Strangers
“It was characteristic of this lady (as of some other people before her time and since) that whenever her original proposition was questioned, she exaggerated it.”
― A Tale of Two Cities
― A Tale of Two Cities
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