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“For the moment he wished to behave like all those others around him who believed, or made believe, that plague can come and go without changing anything in men's hearts.”
― The Plague
― The Plague
“Ellis had a strain of thrift, derived from a Scotch ancestry, and a tenacious memory for financial details.”
― The Marrow of Tradition
― The Marrow of Tradition
“It was a prerogative of aristocracy, Ellis reflected, to live upon others, and the last privilege which aristocracy in decay would willingly relinquish.”
― The Marrow of Tradition
― The Marrow of Tradition
“No, no, sometimes a person feels to be alone."
"If you're alone too much," Persky said, "you think too much."
"Without a life," Rosa answered, "a person lives where they can. If all they got is thoughts, that's where they live."
"You ain't got a life?"
"Thieves took it.”
― The Shawl
"If you're alone too much," Persky said, "you think too much."
"Without a life," Rosa answered, "a person lives where they can. If all they got is thoughts, that's where they live."
"You ain't got a life?"
"Thieves took it.”
― The Shawl
“It seemed to Rosa Lublin that the whole peninsula of Florida was weighted down with regret. Everyone had left behind a real life. Here they had nothing. They were all scarecrows, blown about under the murdering sunball with empty ribcages.”
― The Shawl
― The Shawl
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