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“Not as oneself did one find rest ever, in her experience (she accomplished here something dexterous with her needles) but as a wedge of darkness.”
― To the Lighthouse
― To the Lighthouse

“It was odd, she thought, how if one was alone, one leant to inanimate things; trees, streams, flowers; felt they expressed one; felt they became one; felt they knew one, in a sense were one; felt an irrational tenderness thus (she looked at that long steady light) as for oneself.”
― To the Lighthouse
― To the Lighthouse

“-and he flew in to her from the clutter of Somerville, the compost heap behind the Harvard Yard.”
― Sleepless Nights
― Sleepless Nights

“The longer I procrastinate on returning phone calls and emails, the more guilty I feel about it. The guilt I feel causes me to avoid the issue further, which only leads to more guilt and more procrastination. It gets to the point where I don’t email someone for fear of reminding them that they emailed me and thus giving them a reason to be disappointed in me.”
― Hyperbole and a Half
― Hyperbole and a Half

“A Doll’s House is about money, about the way it turns locks.”
― Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature
― Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature
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