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“That's the point of a promise, he thinks. It wouldn't have any value, if you could see what it would cost you when you made it.”
― Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light

“Tomorrow was another day, at least by the calendar, but the two could hardly be told apart: the heat, the faintly drifting cloud, the ship pitching heavily with no way on her, the flaccid sails, were all the same:”
― Patrick O'Brian, Blue at the Mizzen

“Life is precisely that which she and others were prodigiously killing — the moment itself.”
― Shokoofeh Azar, The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree

“Besides, I long for men's company: the prattle of the little girls — much though I love them — drives me to an earlier and earlier breakfast, to a later and even later dinner, so that presently the two will meet, as they did in Avicenna's tale.”
― Patrick O'Brian, The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey