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  1. Jeanette Winterson _ Lighthousekeeping

    Dark woke out of his sleeping nightmare and intohis waking nightmare. He had dreamed of a door closing and closing.
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  2. Jeanette Winterson _ Lighthousekeeping

    Dark could feel the familiar pain behind his eyes. His eyes were bars, and behind them was a fierce, unfed animal. When people looked at him they had the feeling of being shut out. He did not shut them out. He shut himself in.
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  3. Jeanette Winterson _ Lighthousekeeping

    Cuando cayó la noche, vio la luz del faro del cabo de la Ira; solo hacía una semana que estaba encendida, pero estaba encendida, y supo que si se convertía a sí mismo en la historia de la luz, quizá se salvaría.
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  4. Jeanette Winterson _ Lighthousekeeping

    We were in Ireland. Was there ever a country so damp? I had to wring out my mind to think clearly. I was a morning mist of confusion."
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  5. Jeanette Winterson _ Lighthousekeeping

    Vertel me een verhaal, Silver.Wat voor verhaal?Het verhaal van wat daarna gebeurde.Dat hangt ervan af.Waarvan?Van hoe ik het vertel.
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  6. Jeanette Winterson _ Lighthousekeeping

    Llegará el día en que los barcos carecerán de tripulación, los aiones no tendrán pilotos, las fábricas serán gestionadas por robots, y los ordenadores contestarán el teléfono. ¿Qué será entonces de la gente? - Si los barcos no hubieran tenido tripulación cuando tu padre llegó a puerto, tu madre no habría sido una deshonra - Y yo no habría nacido - Y no habrías sido huérfana - Si no hubiera sido huérfana, nunca habría conocido a Pew - ¿Y eso habría supuesto algún cambio? - El cambio que establece el amor
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  7. Jeanette Winterson _ Lighthousekeeping

    Las palabras son la parte del silencio que puede ser hablada
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  8. Jeanette Winterson _ Lighthousekeeping

    Miss Pinch came visiting, and asked me what I intended to do with my Future. She spoke about it as though it were an incurable disease.
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  9. Jeanette Winterson _ Lighthousekeeping

    It's better if I think of my life like that – part miracle, part madness. It's better if I accept that I can't control any of the things that matter. My life is a trail of shipwrecks and set-sails. There are no arrivals, no destinations; there are only sandbanks and shipwreck; then another boat, another tide.
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  10. Jeanette Winterson _ Lighthousekeeping

    Darkness was a presence. I learned to see in it, I learned to see through it, and I learned to see the darkness of my own.
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  11. Jeanette Winterson _ Lighthousekeeping

    I don't expect to be happy. I don't imagine that I will find love, whatever that means, or that if I do find it, it will make me happy. I don't think of love as the answer or the solution. I think of love as a force of nature - as strong as the sun, as necessary, as impersonal, as gigantic, as impossible, as scorching as it is warming, as drought-making as it is life-giving.
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  12. Jeanette Winterson _ Lighthousekeeping

    There was an ending - there always is - but the story went on past the ending - it always does.
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