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‘Can you hear the dead singing, the bright-green dead? They disintegrate in their graves, easily, painlessly. If you put your hand into their bodies all you feel are fragments, and the teeth come out so easily. Where is the life that drove
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“He was surprised to discover that when rich people were starving they looked so much like the poor”
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“A relationship is like a holiday from loneliness, beginning and ending in the same airport. The most awful thing about the end is that it reminds you so clearly of the beginning with the joy with which you set off. Everything is the same, yet everything has been inverted by grief.”
― The Luxury of Exile
― The Luxury of Exile
“For if the world treats you well, Sir, you come to believe you are deserving of it.”
― Alias Grace
― Alias Grace
“He was filled with horror at the thought of what a child becomes, and what the dead must feel watching the change from innocence to guilt and powerless to stop it”
― The Ministry of Fear
― The Ministry of Fear
“The manner of his life was of no importance. What affected her was that he had once been young. That he had grown old, and was now dead. That was all. Youth and vigour had come to that. Youth and vigour always came to that. Everything came to that.”
― The Old Wives' Tale
― The Old Wives' Tale
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