"Many waters could not quench love."
W Somerset Maugham,The Painted Veil
Book reviews, book chat, quotations and hopefully some book pictures. I would love recommendations! Currently reading: The King's General
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"But if nobody spoke unless he had something to say, Kitty reflected, with a smile, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech."
W Somerset Maugham,The Painted Veil
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"I’m awfully stupid,” he said. “I want to tell you that I love you more than anything in the world, but I find it so awfuly difficult to say."
W Somerset Maugham,The Painted Veil
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"I loved you but I couldn’t let you know it. You’re so brutal to those who love you, Scarlett. You take thier love and hold it over their heads like a whip."
Margaret Mitchell,Gone with the Wind
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"When she looked at Tara she could understand, in part, why wars were fought. Rhett was wrong when he said men fought wars for money. No, they fought for swelling acres, softly furrowed by the plow, for pastures green with stubby cropped grass, for lazy yellow rivers and white houses that were cool amid magnolias. These were the only things worth fighting for, the red earth which was theirs and would be their sons’, the red earth whch would bear cotton for their sons and their sons’ sons."
Margaret Mitchell,Gone with the Wind
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"Men and women, they were beautiful and wild, all a little violent under their pleasant ways and only a little tamed."
Margaret Mitchell,Gone with the Wind
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"Any man who was fool enough to fall for simper, a faint and an “Oh, how wonderful you are!” wasn’t worth having. But they all seemed to like it."
Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
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"Ellen had never told her that desire and attainment were two different matters; life had not taught her that the race was not to theswift. She lay in the silvery shadows with courage rising and made the plans that a sixteen-year-old makes when life has been so pleasant that defeat is an impossibility and a pretty dress and a clear complexion are weapons to vanquish fate."
Margaret Mitchell,Gone with the Wind
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"As usual in the very young, she marveled that people could be so selfishly oblivious to her pain and the world rock along just the same, in spite of her heartbreak."
Margaret Mitchell,Gone with the Wind
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"Elena knows that love makes you strong
And love makes you weak.
Love makes you vulnerable.
So if you have enemies
Take what they love."Don Winslow,Savages
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