***A Great and Terrible Beauty***
“My annoyance has indeed been noted.”
“I could curse my bad temper, but it won’t get it back.”
“I want to ask him if it’s possible for a girl to be born unlovable, or does she just become that way?”
“The vicar leads us in prayers that begin with ‘O Lord’ and end with our somehow not being worthy—sinners who have always been sinners and will forever more be sinners until we die. It isn’t the most optimistic outlook I’ve ever heard. But we’re encouraged to keep trying anyway.”
***Rebel Angels***
“All that we see or seem/Is but a dream within a dream” –Edgar Allan Poe
“All that we see or seem/Is but a dream within a dream” –Edgar Allan Poe
“In books, the truth makes everything good and fine. The good prevail. The wicked are punished. There is happiness. But it’s not really like that, is it?”
“No, I suppose it only makes everything known.”
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