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Jennifer Welsh
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"He watched Catherine be sought out, talk eagerly, link arms, laugh. He wished he was not married to her, so that he could be one of these acquaintances, could spend a happy hour in her company and then take his leave, think nothing of her until another year had passed, until another party brought them together again, for a charming afternoon."
— Feb 15, 2024 02:45AM
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Jennifer Welsh
is on page 183 of 392
“I cannot see where affection between people of the same sex differs from love as it is ordinarily understood. Everything I have ever read in books or seen in plays; everything I have seen in my life of ordinary love, I have known in inverted form. It cannot ever seem unnatural or abnormal, because it has been natural and spontaneous in me.�
— Feb 13, 2024 04:45AM
Jennifer Welsh
is on page 122 of 392
"Edith had a habit of raising her hand to her mouth while she chewed, as if something were always at risk of falling out. When she was also listening, with her eyes fixed on a person speaking, it suggested that what she was keeping back might be words, that she was protecting some impression or response. Henry knew—he was fairly sure he did—when she was only chewing."
— Feb 12, 2024 03:23PM
Jennifer Welsh
is on page 35 of 392
“…ideas worked their way under his skin, until they became part of his whole response to the world, tingling under the surface of everything, flaring like fever when he encountered some prejudice, some small backwardness that made the world seem vast and intractable in its stupidity.�
— Feb 08, 2024 07:30AM
