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Oh bullshit. You didn’t come here to make sure I was okay. You came here because you wanted to save poor little Margo from her troubled little self, so that I would be oh-so-thankful to my knight in shining armor that I would strip my clothes off and beg you to ravage my body.

There is so much of gratitude or vanity in almost every attachment, that it is not safe to leave any to itself. We can all begin freely—a slight preference is natural enough; but there are very few of us who have heart enough to be really in love without encouragement. In nine cases out of ten a women had better show more affection than she feels. Bingley likes your sister undoubtedly; but he may never do more than like her, if she does not help him on.

I never loved to read. One does not love breathing

Я не идеалист и вовсе не считаю суд присяжных наилучшим из судов, для меня это не идеал, но существующая, действующая реальность. Суд в целом, джентльмены, не лучше, чем каждый из вас, присяжных. Суд разумен лишь постольку, поскольку разумны присяжные, а присяжные в целом разумны лишь постольку, поскольку разумен каждый из них.

Modesty is invisibility, said Aunt Lydia. Never forget it. To be seen—to be seen—is to be—her voice trembled—penetrated. What you must be, girls, is impenetrable. She called us girls.

VLADIMIR: You waagerrim?

It’s just that when you’re standing beside an open window at twilight, you can say more toeach other than in bright sunshine. It’s also easier to whisper your feelings than toshout them from the rooftops.

She had a nice voice. A nice telephone voice, mostly. She should’ve carried a goddamn telephone around with her.

Well, you keep your place then, Nigger. I could get you strung up on a tree so easy it ain’t even funny. Crooks had reduced himself to nothing. There was no personality, no ego—nothing to arouse either like or dislike. He said, Yes, ma’am, and his voice was toneless. For

I do not believe a word of it, my dear. If he had been so very agreeable, he would have talked to Mrs. Long. But I can guess how it was; everybody says that he is eat up with pride, and I dare say he had heard somehow that Mrs. Long does not keep a carriage, and had come to the ball in a hack chaise.

Well then, how do you explain why the Cunninghams are different? Mr. Walter can hardly sign his name, I’ve seen him. We’ve just been readin’ and writing’ longer’n they have.”No, everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowin’. That Walter’s smart as he can be, he just gets held back sometimes because he has to stay out and help his daddy. Nothin’s wrong with him. Naw, Jem, I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.”Jen turned around and punched his pillow. When he settled back his face was cloudy. He was going into one of his declines, and I grew wary. His brows came together; his mouth became a thin line. He was silent for a while.”That’s what I thought, too,” he said at last, “when I was your age. If there’s just one kind of folks, why can’t they get along with each other? If they’re all alike, why do they go out of their way to despise each other? Scout, I think i’m beginning to understand something. I think i’m beginning to understand why Boo Radley’s stayed shut up in the house all this time … its because he wants to stay inside.

Sometimes, it’s never an insult to be called what someone thinks is a bad name.

While they taught that duty to one’s country is the greatest thing, we already knew that death-throes are stronger.

¡Dios mío! ¡Cómo me fastidia que me digan «Buena suerte» cuando me voy de alguna parte! Es de lo más deprimente

Looking down at her fingernails, she also asked me had I not in my family a certain strange strain. I countered by inquiring whether she would still want to marry me if my father’s maternal grandfather had been, say, a Turk.

wish

but when a man spends his relief checks on green whiskey his children have a way of crying from hunger pains. I don’t know of any landowner around here who begrudges those children any game their father can hit.

La coscienza è l’unica cosa che non debba conformarsi al volere della maggioranza.

Nelly, I am Heathcliff Bar!

Nos pasamos la vida diciendo ”encantado de conocerte” a personas que no queremos conocer, pero hay que hacer estas cosas para sobrevivir.