Work she did not mind, or sacrifice of leisure, rest and comfort. But she hated having to stand up for herself when people treated her badly
Solveig siterer Madonna in a Fur Coat (Penguin Modern Classics) av Sabahattin Ali (side 43)
09:55, 12. juli 2021 Ingen har det som favoritt.
I was [...] absurdly shy, and therefore often mistaken for a fool, which upset me deeply.
Solveig siterer Madonna in a Fur Coat (Penguin Modern Classics) av Sabahattin Ali (side 43)
09:53, 12. juli 2021 Ingen har det som favoritt.
I had always been one of those quiet boys who preferred dreams to the rreal world.
Solveig siterer Fraulein Schmidt and Mr Anstruther (Vintage Classics) av Elizabeth Von Arnim (side 166)
09:22, 7. juli 2021 Ingen har det som favoritt.
What private things I tell you. I wouldn't if I were talking. [..] But writing is so different and so strange; at once so much more and so much less intimate.
Solveig siterer Madonna in a Fur Coat (Penguin Modern Classics) av Sabahattin Ali (side 103)
09:13, 6. juli 2021 Ingen har det som favoritt.
... in my zeal to tell the whole truth, I put too much emphasis on my short-comings, thereby distorting it.
Solveig siterer Madonna in a Fur Coat (Penguin Modern Classics) av Sabahattin Ali
09:06, 4. juli 2021 Ingen har det som favoritt.
When I saw how she was incapable of voicing her true feelings, and how fear and envy contrived to suppress everything about her that was deep and strong, and beautiful – I saw myself.
Solveig siterer Madonna in a Fur Coat (Penguin Modern Classics) av Sabahattin Ali (side 141)
16:55, 3. juli 2021* Ingen har det som favoritt.
For our lives were govorned by trival detailes. Indeed, trival details were what true life was made of.
Solveig siterer Madonna in a Fur Coat (Penguin Modern Classics) av Sabahattin Ali (side 153)
16:54, 3. juli 2021 Ingen har det som favoritt.
No matter where I was, I failed to make my presence felt.
Solveig siterer Madonna in a Fur Coat (Penguin Modern Classics) av Sabahattin Ali (side 154)
16:52, 3. juli 2021 Ingen har det som favoritt.
... our missed opportunities never leave us, and every time they come back to haunt us, we ache.
Solveig siterer Chelbury Abbey av Denis Mackail (side 62)
08:08, 28. april 2021 Ingen har det som favoritt.
You looked at him - or at any rate John Ellery looked at him - and liked him because it's natural to like people who are obviously even shyer than yourself.
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"Vera" av Elizabeth von Arnim, som var en forgjenger til Rebecca.
Solveig siterer The Pastor's Wife av Elizabeth von Arnim (side 45)
12:20, 27. mars 2021* Ingen har det som favoritt.
Hers was the real courage found only in the entierly terrified, who, terrified, yet see the thing, whatever it is, doggedly through.
Romaner med en årstid i tittelen
Solveig siterer Summertime av Denis Mackail (side 90)
10:01, 14. mars 2021 Ingen har det som favoritt.
If you were to wake up one morning, with a clear conscience and a healthy body, and yet at the instant at opening your eyes were to become aware of a faint feeling of depression and discomfort, as though there were a headache somewhere in the room; and if at the same time you found your waking thoughts straying in the direction of self-analysis accompanied by a strange distaste for the lot of mortal man;if, as I say, all this were to happen to you, you would of course realise at once that it must be Sunday.
Der hovedpersonen er kunstner
Solveig siterer Summertime av Denis Mackail (side 29)
08:50, 10. mars 2021 Ingen har det som favoritt.
If you try ard enough, it is of course possible, by a process known as reading between the lines, to make practically any letter that has ever been written mean almost anything that you choose to discover in it.
Solveig siterer Young Kangaroos Prefer Riding av Mary Essex (side 9)
11:37, 11. februar 2021 Ingen har det som favoritt.
A practical joke is often not funny, and it is certainly seldom practical.
Solveig siterer Tales From Greenery Street av Denis Mackail (side 320)
09:46, 21. januar 2021 Ingen har det som favoritt.
[W]hen there seems to be absolutely no reason for something, it is always just possible that it may have been one's own fault.
Bøker med artige titler
Solveig siterer Tales From Greenery Street av Denis Mackail (side 47)
16:33, 17. januar 2021 Ingen har det som favoritt.
Mr. Hunter was by no means unskilled at his particular line of business, and should have been quick enough at learning any other; but he was horribly unskilled at saying so.
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