“The world gobbles us and chews us and swallows us,” Hatcher said, in that uncanny way he had of reading her thoughts. “I think happy endings must be accidents.”
― Red Queen
― Red Queen
“Men generally don't recognize the authority of women", Levi said very gently. "It's the way of the world, Amelia. I'm sorry it distress you."
"The world", Amelia said, "is wrong about so many things.”
― The Mermaid
"The world", Amelia said, "is wrong about so many things.”
― The Mermaid
“And I told you it was my choice", [she] said. "But I was too foolish to understand what I was choosing.”
― The Mermaid
― The Mermaid
“I don't belong to you ... You thought if I married you that I would, but I don't. I don't belong to any man ... I only belong to myself. But belonging to myself doesn't mean I don't love you or that I don't want to stand beside you.”
― The Mermaid
― The Mermaid
“She felt suddenly the discomfort of being the only woman in a room full of men, men who gazed at her with speculative eyes. Her body did not seem to be protected by her clothes, and she resistet the urge to turn away. They would not make her ashamed of herself. They would not make her a human woman.”
― The Mermaid
― The Mermaid
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