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“Either you go to America with Mrs. Van Hopper or you come home to Manderley with me."
"Do you mean you want a secretary or something?"
"No, I'm asking you to marry me, you little fool.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

“Thus the expert in battle moves the enemy, and is not moved by him.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“I'll be your mess, you be mine
That was the deal that we had signed”
― Gayle Forman, Where She Went

“The foundations of your childhood, they stay with you.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire

“We replanted. The loss was substantial, but it was overshadowed completely by losing you.”
― Vanessa Diffenbaugh, The Language of Flowers

“We hear speech as a string of separate words, but unlike the tree falling in the forest with no one to hear it, a word boundary with no one to hear it has no sound. In the speech sound wave, one word runs into the next seamlessly; there are no little silences between spoken words the way there are white spaces between written words. We simply hallucinate word boundaries when we reach the edge of a stretch of sound that matches some entry in our mental dictionary. This becomes apparent when we listen to speech in a foreign language: it is impossible to tell where one word ends the next begins. The seamlessness of speech is also apparent in 'oro­nyms', strings of sound that can be carved into words in two different ways: The good can decay many ways / The good candy came anyways.”
― Steven Pinker, The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language

“We shouldn’t work less just because it allows us to be better workers. We should work less because it allows us to be better humans.”
― Simone Stolzoff, The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work

“It was a big room, full of books. The books did not confine themselves to the bookcases that reached up to the ceiling. They were on chairs and tables and even on the floor. And yet there was no sense of disarray about them.”
― Agatha Christie, Crooked House

“So what's in a name? The answer, we have seen, is, a great deal. In the sense of a morphological product, a name is an intricate structure, elegantly assembled by layers of rules and lawful even at its quirkiest. And in the sense of a listeme, a name is a pure symbol, part of a cast of thousands, rapidly acquired because of a harmony between the mind of the child, the mind of the adult, and the texture of reality.”
― Steven Pinker

“I understood now the disgust in my father's eye. His moron son, confessing all. I recalled how his jaw had hardened as I spoke. He does not deserve to be king.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“Stained-glass windows glowed faintly in the moonlight streaming through, illuminating the sculpture of Christ on the cross that hung above the altar.
It was the most beautiful thing he had ever seen.

Then the sculpture seemed to move, and Christ’s body twisted on the cross to look directly at him. ...Jesus, the son of God and his saviour, seemed be smiling at him.”
― Phillip W. Simpson, Rapture

“Because I had to see for myself. I had to see inside the church. To see who it is that I’m fighting for.â€�

“And did you see?�

(remembered Jesus, the son of God and his saviour smiling at him.)Sam smiled. “Yes, I most certainly did.”
― Phillip W. Simpson, Rapture

“Part of you isn’t demon,â€� she said. “You’re all human â€� you just have those horns for decoration.”
― Phillip W. Simpson, Rapture

“As she looked me up and down, I felt like a daughter returning from summer camp to a mother who had worried unnecessarily. Except instead of summer camp it had been my entire adolescence, emancipation, homelessness, and single parenthood, and I couldn't rightly say that Elizabeth's worry had been unwarranted”
― Vanessa Diffenbaugh, The Language of Flowers

“... I may question the infallibility of the teachers, but I hope that I shall not therefore be accused of doubt as to the thing to be taught.”
― Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers

“It was not murder that exiled me, it was my lack of cunning.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“It is much less difficult for the sufferer to be generous than for the oppressor.”
― Anthony Trollope, The Warden

“Suddenly all emotion was wiped away as though by a sponge and, turning to me, she asked in a businesslike tone.”
― Agatha Christie, Crooked House

“There was no emotion in Philip’s voice. It was a simple statement of fact”
― Agatha Christie, Crooked House