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1. "Surely a pretty woman never looks prettier than when making tea." ~ Mary Elizabeth Braddon
2. "Phoebe Marks was a person who never lost her individuality. Silent and self-contained, she seemed to hold herself within herself, and take no colour from the outer world." ~ Mary Elizabeth Braddon
3. "That he will haunt the footsteps of his enemy after death is the one revenge which a dying man can promise himself; and if men had power thus to avenge themselves the earth would be peopled with phantoms. ("Eveline's Visitant")" ~ Mary Elizabeth Braddon
4. "And thus they form a perfect group; he walks back two or three paces, selects his point of sight, and begins to sketch a hurried outline. He has finished it before they move; he hears their voices, though he cannot hear their words, and wonders what they can be talking of. Presently he walks on, and joins them.'You have a corpse there, my friends?' he says. 'Yes; a corpse washed ashore an hour ago.''Drowned?' 'Yes, drowned; - a young girl, very handsome.' 'Suicides are always handsome,' he says; and then he stands for a little while idly smoking and meditating, looking at the sharp outline of the corpse and the stiff folds of the rough canvas covering.Life is such a golden holiday to him young, ambitious, clever - that it seems as though sorrow and death could have no part in his destiny. ("The Cold Embrace")" ~ Mary Elizabeth Braddon
5. "Self-assertion may deceive the ignorant for a time; but when the noise dies away, we cut open the drum, and find it was emptiness that made the music." ~ Mary Elizabeth Braddon
6. "They were dreamers—and they dreamt themselves into the cemetery." ~ Mary Elizabeth Braddon
7. "He was a student - such things as happened to him, happen sometimes to students.He was a German - such things as happened to him, happen sometimes to Germans.He was young, handsome, studious, enthusiastic, metaphysical, reckless, unbelieving, heartless.And being young, handsome, and eloquent he was beloved. ("The Cold Embrace")" ~ Mary Elizabeth Braddon
8. "You seem to have quite a taste for discussing these horrible subjects," she said, rather scornfully; "you ought to have been a detective police officer.""I sometimes think I should have been a good one.""Why?""Because I am patient." ~ Mary Elizabeth Braddon
9. "What have you to do with hearts, except for dissection?" ~ Mary Elizabeth Braddon
10. "Being a very quiet young man, without much to say for" ~ Mary Elizabeth Braddon
11. "George Gilbert took his life as he found it, and had no wish to make it better." ~ Mary Elizabeth Braddon
12. "Sir Harry Towers cares." ~ Mary Elizabeth Braddon
13. "The boys are to have theirs in the kitchen," ~ Mary Elizabeth Braddon
14. "He forgot that love, which is a madness, and a scourge, and a fever, and a delusion, and a snare, is also a mystery, and very imperfectly understood by everyone except the individual sufferer who writhes under its tortures." ~ Mary Elizabeth Braddon
15. "He was a square, pale-faced man of almost forty, and had the appearance of having outlived every emotion to which humanity is subject." ~ Mary Elizabeth Braddon

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As a scar commemorates what happened, so is memory but itself a scar."
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