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"Little bundle of contradictions."
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"I tried to bring up boyfriends and sex. Her great dark eyes surveyed me with emptiness and a kind of chagrin that reached back generations and generations in her blood from not having done what was crying to be done--whatever it was, and everybody knows what it was."
"If he's not he should be by now. The things that happen to people we never really know. What happens in houses behind closed doors, what secrets."
"The house was clean, scrubbed and immaculate, curtains washed, windows polished, but all as a man does it - the ironed curtains did not hang quite straight and there were streaks on the windows and a square showed on the table when a book was moved."
"She was the most wonderful woman for prowling about the house. How she got from one story to another was a mystery beyond solution. A lady so decorous in herself, and so highly connected, was not to be suspected of dropping over the banisters or sliding down them, yet her extraordinary facility of locomotion suggested the wild idea."
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"And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren't any other people living in the world."
"Sleep makes the silence and the terrible fear go by more quickly, helps pass the time, since it's impossible to kill."
"Sometimes I'm so deeply buried under self-reproaches that I long for a word of comfort to help me dig myself out again."
"Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls."
"This is where Mother and I differ greatly. Her advice in the face of melancholy is: 'Think about all the suffering in the world and be thankful you're not part of it.' My advice is: 'Go outside and try to recapture the happiness within yourself, think of all the beauty in yourself and in everything around you and be happy."
"Go outside and try to recapture the happiness within yourself, think of all the beauty in yourself and in everything around you and be happy."
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