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1 " The poverty of the villages is almost picturesque from the windows of a coach that is not stopping. "
― Andrew Miller , Pure
2 " The visit, like all visits home for a long time now, has been an obscure failure. When is it we cease to be able to go back, truly go back? What secret door is it that closes? "
3 " First ambitions are best. We are less brave later. "
4 " Like everyone else in the house, she suffers from dreams. "
5 " She knows about men, knows a good deal of the world's character. But it is hard, whatever you have endured, to give up on love. Hard to stop thinking of it as a home you might one day find again. More than hard. "
6 " Why are there no handsome priest in Paris? One has no inclination to confess anything to an ugly man. "
7 " I’m going to play,’ says Armand, lacing his fingers and cracking the knuckles. ‘A pair of these lads can pump for me.’ ‘Is this a time for playing?’ asks Jean Baptiste. Then, ‘You are right. You have never been more so. "
8 " Could he not go to hospital?' asks Jean-Baptiste.The doctor flares his nostrils. 'Hospitals are very dangerous places. Particularly to one already weakened by illness. "
9 " Everywhere women were insulted with impunity, insulted by men. If a few of them suffered for their insolence as the overseer had, it might be no more than they deserved. "
