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“You can't,' she said slowly, 'get happiness through a person if you can't get it through yourself”
― The Misses Mallett: The Bridge Dividing
― The Misses Mallett: The Bridge Dividing
“People can't have everything. I don't suppose you'd change with anybody really, if you could. People are like that. They grumble, but they like being themselves”
― The Misses Mallett: The Bridge Dividing
― The Misses Mallett: The Bridge Dividing
“She wished he would loosen his grip and hoped he would go on holding her for ever. It was a moment of mingled ecstasy and sadness”
― The Misses Mallett: The Bridge Dividing
― The Misses Mallett: The Bridge Dividing
“...but a prisoner fastened to a chain does not find much solace in counting the links.”
― The Misses Mallett: The Bridge Dividing
― The Misses Mallett: The Bridge Dividing
“It seemed to her that life was hardly more than a perpetual and painful choice.”
― The Misses Mallett: The Bridge Dividing
― The Misses Mallett: The Bridge Dividing
“...the past was mixed with the present, the done with the undone: she was assailed by the awful conviction that right was prolific in producing wrong.”
― The Misses Mallett: The Bridge Dividing
― The Misses Mallett: The Bridge Dividing
“You stay with me all the time: you always will. You're like music, always in my head, but you're more than that. You go deeper: I suppose into my heart. Sometimes I think I'm carrying you in my arms. I can't see you but I can feel you're there, and sometimes I laugh because I think you're laughing.”
― The Misses Mallett: The Bridge Dividing
― The Misses Mallett: The Bridge Dividing