
“One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.” - A. A. Milne
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On the Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta

…I have noticed that when things happen in one’s imaginings, they never happen in one’s life, so I am curbing myself.”
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith

John Thornton;
Margaret: My friend, Bessy Higgins, is dying.
John: And that of course, is my fault too.
Margaret: I’m sorry.
John: For what? That you find my feelings for you offensive? Or that you assume because I’m in trade I’m only capable of thinking in terms of buying and selling? Or that I take pleasure in sending my employees to an early grave?
Margaret: No! No, no, of course not. I’m… I’m sorry… to be so blunt. I’ve not learnt how to… how to refuse… how to respond when a… when a man talks to me as you just have.
John: Oh, there are others? This happens to you every day? Of course. You must have to disappoint so many men that offer you their heart.