

“I think housework is far more tiring and frightening than hunting is, no comparison, and yet after hunting we had eggs for tea and were made to rest for hours, but after housework people expect one to go on just as if nothing special had happened.”
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“The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one.”
― The Blind Assassin
― The Blind Assassin

“So that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and a woman looking at a girl throwing a ball”
― To the Lighthouse
― To the Lighthouse

“When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.”
― The Handmaid’s Tale
― The Handmaid’s Tale

“What wouldn't I give now for a never-changing map of the ever-constant ineffable? To possess, as it were, an atlas of clouds.”
― Cloud Atlas
― Cloud Atlas
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