Date: 1791, 1794
"[B]ut the poor girl by thoughtless passion led astray, who, in parting with her honour, has forfeited the esteem of the very man to whom she has sacrificed every thing dear and valuable in life, feels his indifference in the fruit of her own folly, and laments her want of power to recall his los...
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Date: 1791, 1794
"For Charlotte, the soul melts with sympathy; for La Rue, it feels nothing but horror and contempt."
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Date: 1980
"What is thought after all, what is dreaming, but swim and flow, and the images they seem to animate?"
preview | full record— Robinson, Marilynne (b. 1943)
Date: 1980
"And here we find our greatest affinity with water, for like reflections on water our thoughts will suffer no changing shock, no permanent displacement."
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Date: 2011
"His thoughts washed back and forth between pitying the child and wanting to crush her, stamp her out for her own sake."
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Date: 2011
"He stared at her little heart-shaped face and kissed her cheek and kissed her mouth and a thrilling horror spread like a stain through the hollow of his chest."
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