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“Missing rubs the soul raw.”
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Sarah Dunant
Source : Sarah Dunant (2001). “Mapping the Edge: A Novel”, p.8, Random House
#Missing Quotes
#Soul Quotes
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“I listen to people talking sometimes, that great river that is language, with all its undercurrents of grammar and nuance, and I wonder how we all learn so quickly to speak it, given that we begin when we are barely old enough to stand upright. I have no memory of finding it hard. Indeed, I have no memory of it at all.”
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Sarah Dunant
Source : Sarah Dunant (2006). “In the Company of the Courtesan: A Novel”, p.264, Random House
#Memories Quotes
#Talking Quotes
#Rivers Quotes
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“Ah, he has too many ideas, that man da Vinci. His mind works faster than his hands.”
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Sarah Dunant
#Men Quotes
#Hands Quotes
#Ideas Quotes
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“Someone told me much later that you always know the people who are going to make a difference in your life, from the very first time you set eyes on them, even if you do not like them at all. And I had noticed him, as he had me. God help us.”
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Sarah Dunant
Source : Sarah Dunant (2004). “The Birth of Venus: A Novel”, p.102, Random House
#Eye Quotes
#Differences Quotes
#People Quotes
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“If grace belongs to God, there are those who say that luck belongs to the Devil and that he looks after his own.”
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Sarah Dunant
Source : Sarah Dunant (2006). “In the Company of the Courtesan: A Novel”, p.16, Random House
#Grace Quotes
#Luck Quotes
#Devil Quotes
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“The Devil may take the reckless, but the good will surely die of boredom. Boredom and frustration.”
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Sarah Dunant
Source : Sarah Dunant (2004). “The Birth of Venus: A Novel”, p.122, Random House
#Frustration Quotes
#Boredom Quotes
#Devil Quotes
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“Obsessed? I don't know what the word means. I know there were times when I couldn't think of anything else. I used to stay in every weeknight in the hope that he might get free and call me. It felt like I had a disease I didn't want to get rid of. I suppose that's a definition of obsession, yes.”
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Sarah Dunant
Source : Sarah Dunant (2001). “Mapping the Edge: A Novel”, p.163, Random House
#Mean Quotes
#Thinking Quotes
#Disease Quotes
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“So if we could not have love, my husband and I, then at least I could have alchemy.”
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Sarah Dunant
Source : Sarah Dunant (2012). “The Birth of Venus (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.252, Random House
#Husband Quotes
#Love My Husband Quotes
#My Husband Quotes
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“But anyone who has been that young knows that the great grief of love is that your body feels the most when it knows the least.”
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Sarah Dunant
Source : Sarah Dunant (2006). “In the Company of the Courtesan: A Novel”, p.226, Random House
#Grief Quotes
#Love Is Quotes
#Body Quotes
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“Together he [Girolamo Savonarola] and his archenemy Lorenzo [de' Medici] would have been the stuff of gargoyles. One could almost imagine the diptych in which their profiles confronted each other, their noses as powerful as their personalities.”
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Sarah Dunant
#Powerful Quotes
#Personality Quotes
#Together Quotes
