Lena Coakley Quotes

#1. They were so beautiful in their opposition - like two sides of a coin.
They were ... balance.

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#2. We are so isolated here in Haworth, with no one of our own age to befriend, and the men and women of Verdopolis are real, in a way. It wouldn't seem strange to me if ... Someone ... Might even fall in love with one of them.

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#3. Why did people shrink away from winter, he wondered, safe in their blankets, hiding by their fires?
If they knew how beautiful winter really was, they would walk out naked into the snow, walk and walk, until their frozen hearts split open with joy.

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#4. It was as if the girl were a puzzle that his mind was trying to solve.

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#5. Grief is her hobby. She's made a study of it

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#6. Rogue turned to her, his face no longer quite so hard. A curl of smoke rose from the pistol in his hand. Rotten apples fell from the tree, splatting at her feet. "Poor little girlie," he said, and there did seem to be potty in his voice. "I told you you'd get your fingers bit.

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#7. For the first time he understood what he had always been taught: The world was made of music.

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#8. The present catches up to the future with alarming speed - I had forgotten that.

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#9. You can't see the world from somebody else's point of view and not be changed.

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#10. Maria raised herself with difficulty. "Hush. I'm getting up. See?" She sat perched on the edge of the bed, breathing heavily. "And you will have my porridge thus morning. If you share it with Emil.

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#11. there is no shortage of reading material in this house. Charlotte is an excellent writer, but Mr. Shakespeare is better, and if it's Branwell's wickedness you like, Papa says we may read Lord Byron in moderation." Emily

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#12. Why did knowing grief himself not make him better at knowing how to help?

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#13. If I am to have a life of sorrows, I will not let them conquer me.

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#14. He taught me that the whole world was a holy place. That's why he loved our old farm, loved the dirt under his feet. Everything was magic to him.

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#15. Every once in a while it's as if my mind turns a corner, and then I can see forever. I love that feeling.

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#16. An assassin's first murder is himself. He kills the man he was.

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#17. She reminded him of a snowcat - a beautiful, dangerous thing from a cold, high place

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#18. We live between the two great silences: the silence that existed before the world began, and the silence that waits for us at the end of all things.

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