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Life could do nothing for her, beyond giving time for a better preparation for death.

Elinor could sit still no longer. She almost ran out of the room, and as soon as the door was closed, burst into tears of joy, which at first she thought would never cease.

Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was necessary to laugh, when she would rather have cried.

If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient.

Did I request thee, Maker, from my clayTo mould me man? Did I solicit theeFrom darkness to promote me?

they had come to a time when no one dared speak his mind, when fierce, growling dogs roamed everywhere, and when you had to watch your comrades torn to pieces after confessing to shocking crimes.

People disappeared, reappeared, made plans to go somewhere, and then lost each other, searched for each other, found each other a few feet away.

Before Jem looks at anyone else he looks at me, and I’ve tried to live so I can look squarely back at him.

Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.

Out of her favour, where I am in love.

Perhaps because there are those who believe that authority is all of a piece and that to challenge it anywhere is to threaten it everywhere.

Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what's said and what's done.

But the thought of being a lunatic did not greatly trouble him; the horror was that he might also be wrong.

He was conscious of nothing except the blankness of the page in front of him, the itching of the skin above his ankle, the blaring of the music, and a slight booziness caused by the gin.

If there is hope, it lies in the proles.

One and one and one and one doesn't equal four. Each one remains unique, there is no way of joining them together. They cannot be exchanged, one for the other. They cannot replace each other.

The time has comeThe walrus saidTo talk of many things:Of shoes- and ships-And sealing wax-Of cabbages and kings-And why the sae is boiling hot-And whether pigs have wings.

What a shame, for I dearly love to laugh.

Everything in life has its price.

Dill was off again. Beautiful things floated around in his dreamy head. He could read two books to my one, but he preferred the magic of his own inventions. He could add and subtract faster than lightning, but he preferred his own twilight world, a world where babies slept, waiting to be gathered like morning lilies.