"Oh! And they read English novels! David! Did you ever look into an English novel? Well, do not trouble yourself. It is nothing but a lot of nonsense about girls with fanciful names getting married."

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Source : Susanna Clarke (2009). “The Ladies of Grace Adieu: and Other Stories”, p.111, A&C Black

Susanna Clarke

#Girl Quotes #Names Quotes #Looks Quotes

“Listen - I like musicals. Even when they're bad, there's a couple of dancers I can watch.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!”
“What do you mean she left me the embryos? I'm supposed to get the cat.”

Source : Susan Mallery (2010). “Finding Perfect”, p.7, HQN Books
“Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.”

Source : Shirley Hazzard (2003). “The Bay of Noon: A Novel”, p.13, Macmillan
“They would think she was savoring the taste (blueberries, cinnamon, cream-excellent), but she was actually savoring the whole morning, trying to catch it, pin it down, keep it safe before all those precious moments became yet another memory.”
“I think kids slowly begin to realize that what they're learning relates to other things they know. Then learning starts to get more and more exciting”
“The imagination of a eunuch dwells more and longer upon the material of love than that of man or woman ... supplying, so far as he can, by speculation, the place of pleasures he can no longer enjoy.”
“I ain't scared to do another dating show, but I ain't really trying to... I've done enough dating on television. I'm ready to spread my wings, and go down other avenues.”

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