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![Sarah Waters](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1409248454i/25334._UX200_CR0,34,200,200_.jpg)
“The scullery roof had sprung a leak: she put down a bowl to catch the drips, but the rainwater spread and darkened, to make treasure maps and Whistler nocturnes of the walls and ceiling.”
― The Paying Guests
― The Paying Guests
![Theodore Dreiser](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1192652485i/8987._UX200_CR0,49,200,200_.jpg)
“The long drizzle had begun. Pedestrians had turned up collars and trousers at the bottom. Hands were hidden in the pockets of the umbrella-less - umbrellas were up. The street looked like a sea of round, black-cloth roofs, twisting, bobbing, moving. Trucks and vans were rattling in a noisy line, and everywhere men were shielding themselves as best they could.”
― Sister Carrie
― Sister Carrie
![Mary Zimmerman](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1252684537i/53414._CR0,10,200,200_.jpg)
“Let me die the moment my love dies.
Let me not outlive my own capacity to love.
Let me die still loving, and so, never die.”
― Metamorphoses
Let me not outlive my own capacity to love.
Let me die still loving, and so, never die.”
― Metamorphoses
![Theodore Dreiser](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1192652485i/8987._UX200_CR0,49,200,200_.jpg)
“When Caroline Meeber boarded the afternoon train for Chicago, her total outfit consisted of a small trunk, a cheap imitation alligator-skin satchel, a small lunch in a paper box, and a yellow leather snap purse, containing her ticket, a scrap of paper with her sister's address in Van Buren Street, and four dollars in money. It was in August, 1889. She was eighteen years of age, bright, timid, and full of the illusions of ignorance and youth. Whatever touch of regret at parting characterised her thoughts, it was certainly not for advantages now being given up. A gush of tears at her mother's farewell kiss, a touch in her throat when the cars clacked by the flour mill where her father worked by the day, a pathetic sigh as the familiar green environs of the village passed in review, and the threads which bound her so lightly to girlhood and home were irretrievably broken.”
― Sister Carrie
― Sister Carrie
![Neil Gaiman](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1234150163i/1221698._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“It is a small world. You do not have to live in it particularly long to learn that for yourself. There is a theory that, in the whole world, there are only five hundred real people (the cast, as it were; all the rest of the people in the world, the theory suggests, are extras) and what is more, they all know each other. And it's true, or true as far as it goes. In reality the world is made of thousands upon thousands of groups of about five hundred people, all of whom will spend their lives bumping into each other, trying to avoid each other, and discovering each other in the same unlikely teashop in Vancouver. There is an unavoidability to this process. It's not even coincidence. It's just the way the world works, with no regard for individuals or for propriety.”
― Anansi Boys
― Anansi Boys
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