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"Really excited to read this book. 19th century novels are my favourite novels to read and Zadie Smith is my favourite novelist of all time so this is a match made in heaven for me. I love Victorian novels and this novel feels very Victorian with modern sensibilities, with a post-colonial brush up looking at things that were touched by novels like Jane Eyre or Wuthering Heights or The Moonstone but they left a lot out" — Sep 16, 2023 07:58AM

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suspect, than sugar and apples and soap. I’m fifty-seven. Too old for starting over, too young for giving up. And my name is the same word as for sun beams, as for winged and boneless sharks. But I’m far too solemn and inelegant to be named ...more

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“I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

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“Nobody dies a virgin... Life fucks us all.”
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“[T]hat state, love, is so utterly alien to that other idea without which we cannot live as human beings --- the idea of justice. It is only because love is so profoundly the enemy of justice that our minds, shrinking in horor from its true nature, try to tame it by uniting it with its opposite [...] in the hope that if we apply all the metaphors of normality, that if we heap them high enough, we shall, in the end, be able to approximate that state metaphorically.”
― Amitav Ghosh, The Shadow Lines

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“We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

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“I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.”
― Kurt Cobain

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