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1 " She sat huddled in her corner, swaying from side to side as the coach was shaken, and it seemed to her that never before had she known there was malevolence in solitude. "
― , Jamaica Inn
2 " If you think I'm one of those people who try to be funny at breakfast you're wrong. "
― , Rebecca
3 " How young and inexperienced I must have seemed, and how I felt it, too. One was too sensitive, too raw, there were thorns and pin-pricks in so many words that in reality fell lightly on air. "
4 " I wondered if it was the same in every home, this feeling of exuberance when visitors had gone. "
5 " I am very different that that self who drove to Manderley for the first time, hopeful and eager, handicapped by a rather desperate gaucherie and filled with awn intense desire to please "
6 " I wanted to go back again, to recapture the moment that had gone, and then it came to me that if we did it would not be the same. "
7 " Je me sentais vaguement épuisée et me demandai, un peu choquée de ma cruauté, pourquoi les personnes âgées étaient si exténuantes. Pires que les jeunes enfants [...] car il fallait se montrer poli. "
8 " ... kindness, and sincerity, and ― if I may say so ― modesty are worth far more to a man, to a husband, than all the wit and beauty in the world. "