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21 " Later she will whisper that she will never want any other man again. Such is the drug which, dewed on the eyelids, makes yesterday inconsequential, and tomorrow certain, and today golden "
― Imogen Hermes Gowar , The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock
22 " the words spoken from behind a mask may be bolder than those uttered barefaced, but this need not mean they are more honest. "
23 " Touch me again with your speaking. The hectic crowded feeling of being: I would drink it all in. Brimming with things that swell, and make me flip over on myself: elation and jealousy and spasms of love. "
24 " We live in a modern age, sir: the things that are wrought may be quite a extraordinary as those that are found. "
25 " For they apprehend that before them, pulled up to the fullest of her height, stands a true and haughty whore of the first water. And they cannot think what to do. "
26 " I am advised to forget," he says, "but if I did not have the pain, I would have no memory of them at all. "
27 " Its appearance is unbeautiful. It is not what people expect of a mermaid. "
28 " For what is she, but a spare daughter? "
29 " Love grapples judgement and experience from the hands of even the wisest of souls: what hope is there for anybody else? "
30 " Nebbiting, yebbing thingsnitch! "
31 " It is hard to guard one's own happinesses against one who is so very much in denial of them. "
32 " She is built like an armchair, more upholstered than clothed. "
33 " Such is the drug which, dewed on the eyelids, makes yesterday inconsequential, and tomorrow certain, and today golden. "