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1 " Unlike music, excessive reading has been shown to be dangerous for the female mind. It was taught in our earliest lectures: the male cells are essentially katabolic: active energetic; and female cells are anabolic: there to conserve energy and support life. While a little light reading is fine, breakdown follows when woman goes against her nature. "
― Anna Hope , The Ballroom
2 " Later, Ella looked for the two swallows in the eaves outside the window, watching them even more closely now. The thought of them flying all that way, across mountains and seas and returning here, because this was their home - of them knowing how to find it - changed things. It was a new way of seeing; this was no longer just the place where women and men were kept, but the home of other creatures too, ones that had travelled far and still chosen it because this, above all other places, was the place to bring their families into the world. "
3 " I'll remember you, he thinks, and as the gun carriage, with its coffin and its dented helmet pass him by, he closes his eyes.Nothing will bring them back. Not the words of comfortable men. Not the words of politicians. Or the platitudes of paid poets. "
― Anna Hope , Wake
4 " Clem rubbed at her face with her cuff and gave a quick, rueful smile. 'It's just so sad. It's the umpteenth time I've read it, and I will always think it will have a different ending. But it never does. "
― Anna Hope
5 " The big man bent to her ear. "You know you have to gamble, don't you, to get what you want? So what are you prepared to lose? "
6 " They discuss whether discharge - with its pejorative connotations - is itself a patriarchal term. They decide that there are as many different types of vaginal abjects as Inuits have words for snow. They watch with satisfaction as the boys cringe. They feel a power. They become electric. "
― Anna Hope , Expectation
7 " And whatever anyone thinks or says, England didn't win this war. And Germany wouldn't have won it, either.""What do you mean?""War wins." He says. "And it keeps winning, over and over again. "
8 " Life is still malleable and full of potential. The openings to the roads not taken have not yet sealed up. They still have time to become who they are going to be. "
9 " This, to Lissa, seems to be the main thing that university teaches you – how to bullshit convincingly. The better the university, the better the bullshit. "
10 " She has stumbled through, has survived. Just. "
11 " How do you stand it?" she said."Stand what?""All... this." Ella threw out her arm. "Does it not make you mad?"Clem glanced up. 'Much madness is divinest sense,' She said, and gave a small laugh. "There are plenty of mad women in here. I'm not sure I'm one of them though." She shrugged. "You'll get used to it. "
12 " I think he thought no one would want to marry me because of the way I am". "Why? What way are you?""Oh . All wrong", said Clem with a brief smile. "I'm all wrong". "
13 " She may not ever know. And this fact – the knowledge of his subjectivity, these experiences of his to which she will never have access – feels more violent, somehow, than the betrayal itself. "
14 " Bless me, Father, for I have sinned. I want to torch it all. "
15 " Her wants proliferate, metastasize inside her. "
16 " Vous n'êtes pas obligé de danser avec moi, lui dit-elle en reportant les yeux sur lui. Pas si vous n'en avez pas envie."Mais en guise de réponse il se contenta de tendre les mains. Afin d'envelopper les siennes. "
17 " Her head hurts - from the alcohol, from her mother, from the sun. _We changed the world for you and what have you done with it?_ She knows what Sarah thinks. That she has wasted time - fumbled the baton in the intergenerational feminist relay. What she should have said - _Our best. We're just doing our fucking best._ "
18 " Hannah estudia a estas personas y piensa: aquí, la vida está aquí. Como si desde el principio una parte de su interior hubiera estado entregada a la ardua tarea de crearse una piel, en medio de la oscuridad y del silencio, y ahora ya estuviera lista para lucirla, para entrar en la luz. "
19 " Excessive reading has been shown to be dangerous for the female mind "
20 " War wins,” he says. “And it keeps on winning, over and over again. "
