“A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.”
“It wasn't only wickedness and scheming that made people unhappy, it was confusion and misunderstanding; above all, it was the failure to grasp the simple truth that other people are as real as you.”
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“The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse. ”
“...falling in love could be achieved in a single word—a glance.”
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“Find you, love you, marry you, and live without shame.”
“And though you think the world is at your feet, it can rise up and tread on you.”
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“I've never had a moment's doubt. I love you. I believe in you completely. You are my dearest one. My reason for life. Cee”
“She lay in the dark and knew everything.”
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“The anticipation and dread he felt at seeing her was also a kind of sensual pleasure, and surrounding it, like an embrace, was a general elation--it might hurt, it was horribly inconvenient, no good might come of it, but he had found out for himself
what it was to be in love, and it thrilled him.”
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“It was not generally realized that what children mostly wanted was to be left alone.”
“come back, come back to me”
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“In my dreams I kiss your ****, your sweet wet ****. In my thoughts I make love to you all day long.”
“That love which does not build a foundation on good sense is doomed.”
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“Dearest Cecilia, You’d be forgiven for thinking me mad, the way I acted this afternoon. The truth is I feel rather light headed and foolish in your presence, Cee, and I don’t think I can blame the heat.”
“Not everything people did could be in a correct, logical order, especially when they were alone.”
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“And she did not miss his presence so much as his voice on the phone. Even being lied to constantly, though hardly like love, was sustained attention; he must care about her to fabricate so elaborately and over such a long stretch of time. His deceit
was a form of tribute to the importance of their marriage.”
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“Cecilia wondered, as she sometimes did when she met a man for the first time, if this was the one she was going to marry, and whether it was this particular moment she would remember for the rest of her life - with gratitude, or profound and
particular regret.”
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Other cards in this set
Card 2
Front
“...falling in love could be achieved in a single word—a glance.”
Back
“The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse. ”
Card 3
Front
“And though you think the world is at your feet, it can rise up and tread on you.”
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