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  1. Virginia Woolf _ Mrs. Dalloway

    Well, I've had my fun; I've had it, he thought, looking up at the swinging baskets of pale geraniums. And it was smashed to atoms-his fun, for it was half made up, as he knew very well; invented, this escapade with the girl; made up, as one makes up the better part of life, he thought-making onself up; making her up; creating an exquisite amusement, and something more. But odd it was, and quite true; all this one could never share-it smashed to atoms.
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  2. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni _ Sister of My Heart

    I want to weep too, not for me but for us all--for rich or poor, educated or illiterate, here we are finally reduced to a sameness in this sisterhood of deprivation.
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  3. Jeanette Winterson _ Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

    Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently.
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  4. Suki Kim _ The Interpreter

    You can only drive yourself crazy if you have no distance from the world
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  5. Frances Hodgson Burnett _ A Little Princess

    Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed in a book.
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  6. J.R.R Tolkien _ The Fellowship of the Ring

    So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
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  7. Edith Wharton _ The House of Mirth

    Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths?
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  8. Charles Dickens _ A Tale of Two Cities

    If I may ride with you, Citizen Evremonde, will you let me hold your hand? I am not afraid, but I am little and weak, and it will give me more courage." As the patient eyes were lifted to his face, he saw a sudden doubt in them, and then astonishment. He pressed the work-worn, hunger-worn young fingers, and touched his lips."Are you dying for him?" she whispered."And his wife and child. Hush! Yes.""Oh, you will let me hold your brave hand, stranger?""Hush! Yes, my poor sister; to the last."
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  9. Cormac McCarthy _ All the Pretty Horses

    He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they'd have no heart to start at all.
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  10. Ruth Ozeki _ A Tale for the Time Being

    Truth is like the moon in the sky. Words are like a finger. A finger can point to the moon's location, but it is not the moon. To see the moon, you must look past the finger. To look for the truth in books, the Sixth Patriarch was saying, is like mistaking the finger for the moon. The moon and the finger are not the same thing."Not same," old Jiko would have said. "Not different, either.
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  11. Joyce Carol Oates _ Man Crazy

    Truths are the last thing you learn about your family. By the time you learn, you're no longer their child."
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  12. Larry McMurtry _ Lonesome Dove

    I think its a sickness to grieve too much for those who never cared a fig for you.
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