Rose doesn't like the flat country, but I always did - flat country seems to give the sky such a chance.
("I Capture the Castle")
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I could hear rain still pouring from the gutters and a thin branch scraping against one of the windows; but the church seemed completely cut off from the restless day outside--just as I felt cut off from the church. I thought: I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness.
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Oh I daresay she can't help it - she's one of the women who oughn't be loved too kindly when they are some primitive desire for brutality makes them try to provoke it.
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Everything in the least connected with him has value for me; if someone even mentions his name it is like a little present to me-and I long to mention it myself
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