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61 " There are doubtless worse hobbies than meditating upon your dead mother, but nobody has ever suggested one to me. "
― Lyndsay Faye , Jane Steele
62 " Patience Barbary thought the out-of-doors a treacherous bridge meant to convey her from one civilised structure to another. "
63 " I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will. . . . "
64 " Why didn’t you say something?”Flushing beet red, I replied, “Your inheritance was unexpected. I wanted to live there again, thought that it may have been . . . mine.”“And so it is!” he crowed. “Every brick, every weapon, every bloody blade of grass is as much yours as I am, darling, supposing you’ll give me a pallet in the stables and a crust from time to time. Are you quite mad?”“I don’t want you to live on a pallet.” My tears spilled, and he painted his fingertips over my jaw. “I want you to live in my bones. "
65 " Scientists believe that the Earth twirls upon a great pole like a spinning top; this rotational point is theoretically located in the Arctic North, where the land is so desolate and lovely that daylight and nighttime cannot bear to give it up, and trade shifts in six-month intervals. These scientists are mistaken about the Arctic North; for I know in my heart that though the Earth does spin, and spin far too quickly for many of us to bear, London is the centre of the axis. "
66 " I do not know whether the casual readers of novels is acquainted with an anatomical curiosity known as the femoral artery; without too much medical meandering, although you might suppose that cutting a man's throat would be the fastest way to slaughter him, a good jab to the thigh will do. "
67 " I hereby commence my account with the unembellished truth: Reader, I murdered him. "
68 " Nature's boons are equally plentiful and random, but I have never yet encountered a more capricious mistress - save perhaps for her daughter, madly mercurial London. "
69 " Meeting Mr. Grizzlehurst seemed one of those felicitous coincidences which occur so seldom in fiction - for in fiction, such blessings can scarce be believed, whilst in life they are shared with future generations as thrilling tales of danger averted and luck seized. "
70 " I rather adored the dialect of society's underbelly.... "
71 " I wanted to inflict exquisite agonies upon Aunt Patience; and had I been informed that a few weeks later, I would serve her the deepest cut imaginable, I am not certain that I would not have smiled. Morbidity "