"Bryon tilted his head to a very odd angle, half-closed his eyes and composed his features to suggest that he was about to expire from chronic indigestion."

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Susanna Clarke

#Eye Quotes #Half Quotes #Odd Quotes

“I don't give a damn about Hollywood.”
“That's why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. You can't control life, at least you can control your version.”
“The thing is, it's not good anyway for eight-year-olds to be out there playing tennis tournaments so soon in their lives. But when I did get to play in a tournament, when I was nine, I was overjoyed.”
“A thief, though rich, will continue to steal, but an honest man, though poor, will ever seek to pay his debts.”
“You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner. Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare”
“The most dangerous sicknesses are those that make us believe we are well”
“The writing, acting and the directing all complement each other and make each other better. It's one of those amazing instances where everything seems to come together.”
“love is so very subtle an essence, such an indefinable metaphysical marvel, that its due force, though very cruelly felt by the sufferer himself, is never clearly understood by those who look on at its torments and wonder why he takes the common fever so badly.”

Source : Mary Elizabeth Braddon (2015). “Lady Audley's Secret”, p.344, Sheba Blake Publishing

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