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The way to defuse anger, she thought, was to allow it an outlet. Anger was like a volcano; you had to wait until it discharged before you could approach its crater.
“She loved nothing in the world except this woman’s son, wanted him alive more than anybody, but hadn’t the least bit of control over the predator that lived inside her. Totally taken over by her anaconda love, she had no self left, no fears, no wants, no intelligence that was her own.”
― Song of Solomon
― Song of Solomon
“don’t worry, work, and have faith that all answers will be found there.”
― A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
― A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
“So many years I had spent as a child sifting his bright features for his thoughts, trying to glimpse among them one that bore my name. But he was a harp with only one string, and the note it played was himself.”
― Circe
― Circe
“When I went in again the little house had suddenly grown lonely, and my room looked empty as it had the day I came. I and all my belongings had died out of it, and I knew how it would seem when Mrs. Todd came back and found her lodger gone. So we die before our own eyes; so we see some chapters of our lives come to their natural end.”
― The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories
― The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories
“If she apostatized now, having been brought up in the Church, she would go to hell, while the Protestant girls of her acquaintance, schooled in happy ignorance, could marry eldest sons, live at peace with their world, and get to heaven before her.”
― Brideshead Revisited
― Brideshead Revisited
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