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“...Is it depressing or what?"
"Well," Max said, "I haven't committed suicide yet."
"But you've been thinking about it."
"Luckily, I haven't had that much leisure time.”
― White Palace
"Well," Max said, "I haven't committed suicide yet."
"But you've been thinking about it."
"Luckily, I haven't had that much leisure time.”
― White Palace
“... And you know what she does for living? She tells fortunes."
...
"What do you mean, she tells fortunes? Is she a commodity broker?”
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...
"What do you mean, she tells fortunes? Is she a commodity broker?”
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“I don't berate myself for not having liked Janey better. It wasn't in my power to like her better. But I loved her and I fulfilled my obligations towards her — which just might be the very same thing, when you come right down to it.”
― White Palace
― White Palace
“He'd been obsessed for so long with Nora's unfitness for him that he'd failed to see that she might be perfectly suited to somebody else.”
― White Palace
― White Palace
“Nora wasn't asking him to make her over into someone else; all she wanted was to borrow a few books. Was he such an effete intellectual as to think that an exposure to literature could work some kind of marvelous transformation in her? And what if it could? What if she awoke beside him one morning, having devoured Pride and Prejudice the night before, and was miraculously transfigured into an erudite, civilized woman? Would he still even want her at all?”
― White Palace
― White Palace
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