TBC ultimate quotes list Flashcards

1
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i had, in some way, ceased

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to be her child in becoming his wife

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2
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antique

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service revolver

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3
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opulent male scent of

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leather and spices

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4
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his strange, heavy, almost waxen face

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was not lined by experience

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5
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possessed of that strange, ominous

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calm of a sentient vegetable

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6
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gallery

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of beautiful women

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7
Q

my cup

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runneth over

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8
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i sensed in myself a potentiality

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for corruption that took my breath away

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9
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i would always

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be lonely

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10
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i smelled the amniotic

A

salinity of the ocean

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11
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cut off by the tide

A

from the land for half a day

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12
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saint

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cecelia

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13
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mirrors on

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all the walls

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14
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he stripped me…

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as if he were stripping the leaves off an artichoke

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15
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i was aghast

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to feel myself stirring

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16
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anticipation is the greater

A

part of pleasure my little love

17
Q

my little nun has found

A

the prayer books, has she?

18
Q

all the better

A

to see you

19
Q

a dozen husbands

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impaled a dozen brides

20
Q

insistent shrilling

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of the telephone

21
Q

i clung to him as though

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only the one who had inflicted the pain could comfort me for suffering it

22
Q

i was not afraid of him

A

but of myself

23
Q

there i can go, you understand,

A

to savour the rare pleasure of imagining myself wifeless

24
Q

there is a striking resemblence between

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the act of love and the ministrations of a torturer

25
Q

my mother’s spirit

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drove me on

26
Q

time was his servant too,

A

it would trap me, here, in a night that would last until he came back to me, like a black sun on a hopeless morning

27
Q

though they were blind

A

his eyes were singularly sweet

28
Q

so rich;

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so well-born

29
Q

in my heart, i’d always known

A

its lord would be the death of me