#burgo fitzgerald

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'I live according to my circumstances, as I must.'

Iain Pears, from Arcadia

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With my gaze I consumed the delicate angles of his face.

Jessica Gross, from Open Wide

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There were kinds of beauty that came from some wounded inner quality that made looking at the person difficult. Then there was the plainly presented beauty, naturally warm in its quality and easy, simple. This sort of beauty was the kind most to be distrusted.

Brandon Taylor, from Minor Black Figures

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There was something beautiful about this boy, a kind of dreaminess, a desire to anchor it, attach it to someone.

Irina Reyn, from What Happened to Anna K.

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'He's a very interesting boy.' 'Very. He appears to live on nothing and do nothing.'

Iris Murdoch, from A Fairly Honourable Defeat

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'When I came to you first, you thought me a mere servant, yet you treated me with consideration. You not only followed the dictates of kindness but went far beyond them. You have given protection according to your position.'

Iain Pears, from Arcadia

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When I saw him the other night he was just as handsome as ever;—the same look, half wild and half tame, like an animal you cannot catch, but which you think would love you so if you could catch him.

Anthony Trollope, from Can You Forgive Her?

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'He's always broke. He's a dreadful person, really.' She smiled fondly. 'Poor Freddie.'

John Banville, from Snow