#ivyleagueheart

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Family members can be your best friends, you know. And best friends, whether or not they are related to you, can be your family.

Trenton Lee Stewart | The Mysterious Benedict Society

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The spirit of elder days found a dwelling here, and we delighted to trace its footsteps.

Mary Shelley on Oxford | Frankenstein

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Kate went over to the piano and tried to play it. The keys made no sound. Together they lifted the lid and looked inside. The piano strings had been removed, and in their place were more books.

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The very stars to which I then raised my eyes, I am afraid I took to be but poor and humble stars for glittering on the rustic objects among which I had passed my life.

Charles Dickens | Great Expectations

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"Well, then, understand once for all that I never shall or can be comfortable - or anything but miserable...unless I can lead a very different sort of life from the life I lead now."

Charles Dickens | Great Expectations

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the secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and became a part of myself, that I could not tear it away.

Charles Dickens | Great Expectations

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There have been occasions in my later life...when I have felt for a time as if a thick curtain had fallen on all its interest and romance, to shut me out from anything save dull endurance any more.

Charles Dickens | Great Expectations

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"I am not aware," observed the grave lady whose voice I had heard but once, "that to think of any person is to make a great claim upon that person"

Charles Dickens | Great Expectations