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1 " The library would've cheered me up, most days. I loved the heavy oaken tables, the high walls stacked with books to the ceiling, the musty smell of old pages and the heavy brass fixtures that had gone dark with age and wear. "
― Claudia Gray , Afterlife (Evernight, #4)
2 " My heart was oaken before you set it on fire. It will continue to smolder, long after the flame that ignited it has gone. "
― Natalia Marx , Fire & Raine
3 " Only one-tenth of what you write will make it into your manuscript, but when you knock on that tenth” – I rap my knuckles on the table – “you’ll hear oaken solidity, not sawdust and glue. "
― David Mitchell , The Bone Clocks
4 " Entering by the carré, a piece of mirror- glass, set in an oaken cabinet, repeated my image. It said I was changed: my cheeks and lips were sodden white, my eyes were glassy, and my eyelids swollen and purple.On rejoining my companions, I knew they all looked at me - my heart seemed discovered to them: I believed myself self-betrayed. Hideously certain did it seem that the very youngest of the school must guess why and for whom I despaired. "
― Charlotte Brontë , Villette
