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In great thick dusty books he readAnd hardly ever went to bedBefore it was e

In great thick dusty books he readAnd hardly ever went to bedBefore it was e
– Mervyn Peake

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  2. Oh how I hate people! – Mervyn Peake
  3. If seeing her an hour before her lastWeak cough into all blackness I could yetBe held by chalk-white – Mervyn Peake
  4. Why break the heart that never beat from love? – Mervyn Peake
  5. To live at all is miracle enough. – Mervyn Peake
  6. From daybreak to sunset she turned her thoughts, like boulders, over. She set them in long lines. She rearranged their order… – Mervyn Peake
  7. I am too rich already, for my eyes mint – Mervyn Peake
  8. Lingering is so very lonely when one lingers all alone. – Mervyn Peake
  9. She had shown him by her independence how it was only fear that held people together. The fear of being alone and the fear of being different. – Mervyn Peake
  10. Meanwhile Bellgrove had been savouring love’s rare aperitif, the ageless language of the eyes. – Mervyn Peake
  11. Goldwater hardly ever mentioned a statistic. He hardly ever used it EXAMPLE. He presumed you already knew what he meant. Reagan SHOWED you. – Rick Perlstein
  12. When I was a child, I read books. My reading was not indiscriminate. I preferred books that were old and thick and hard. I made vocabulary lists. – Marilynne Robinson
  13. Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me. – Anatole France
  14. You’ll find magic everywhere, even in dark, dusty corners, if you stop searching with your limited human eyes and instead feel with your naked soul. – Melody Lee
  15. For no one, in our long decline,So dusty, spiteful and divided,Had quite such pleasant friends as mine,Or loved them half as much as I did. – Hilaire Belloc
  16. She lifts a bowl of kheer and her thoughts, flittering like dusty sparrows in a brown back alley, turn a sudden kingfisher blue. – Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
  17. Christianity has no shrines to visit, no dusty remains to venerate, no tombs at which to worship. – Billy Graham
  18. The beagle and the kobold approached, walking out of the dusty distance. – Terry Pratchett
  19. Then I shall bid thee goodnight, my dear. Sweet pixies watch over the dusty moonlight of your dreams, Jessameine. – Jennifer Silverwood
  20. There are things that can be forgotten. And things that cannot – that sit on dusty shelves like stuffed birds with baleful, sideways staring eyes. – Arundhati Roy
  21. We have been living through a time of sorrow. Our seed remains seed. Our nostrils are dusty. – Warren Eyster
  22. We have been living through a time of sorrow. Our seed remains seed. Our nostrils are dusty. – Warren Eyster
  23. His princess was dusty. – Sarah E Morin
  24. I believe books should be like a prime rib steak ~ good and thick. – EA Bucchianeri
  25. I could read the great books but the great books don’t interest me. – Charles Bukowski
  26. Good books makes good life.Great books makes great life. – Lailah Gifty Akita
  27. Charlie had kissed a lot of guys. And Connor’s kiss had been the best ever. Ever, ever, ever. – Robin Bielman
  28. -¦ real life hardly ever unfolds the way we’d like it to, not like in a story. – Lily Graham
  29. Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does. – Jane Austen
  30. It’s hardly ever that I am hurt by something in only one dimension. – Ashly Lorenzana
  31. In a determined reversal of her inherent nature, Kochu Maria now, as a policy, hardly ever believed anything that anybody said. – Arundhati Roy
  32. Practice kindness – particularly when you feel irritated or things are not going well. Kindness hardly ever goes wrong. – Lewis Richmond
  33. Theo, Baleigh, and Lucas were good-looking people, and good-looking people hardly ever went unnoticed. – JA George
  34. Poor people never, or hardly ever, ask for an explanation of all they have to put up with. They hate one another, and content themselves with that. – LouisFerdinand Cline
  35. …I hardly ever see your profile, but have I told you it’s beautiful? – like the soft gentle lines of snow… – John Geddes
  36. The right choice is hardly ever the easy choice. – Rick Riordan
  37. We always feel the brunt of the blow dealt to us, but hardly ever do we feel the impact we have on others. Why is that? – Richelle E Goodrich
  38. Not that she objected to solitude. Quite the contrary. She had books, thank Heaven, quantities of books. All sorts of books. – Jean Rhys
  39. I love books. If they are good books, I love them even more. But even if they are bad books, I still love them. – Hugo Chvez
  40. Books. The reading, writing and cultivation of books is my form of meditation. The books in my life have brought me the closet to divinity. – Casey Carter

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