Louisa Morgan Quotes

• “Because men believe it’s their right to tell women how to live. They tell us who to marry, what to wear, when to go out and when to stay. Some men beat their wives, and no one speaks a word about it. But despite all the power they hold over us, they feel powerless against our kind. We resist. We cause things to happen. We interfere with their plans, with what they think is the natural order. That frightens them. Men hate being afraid, so they hate us instead.”

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• “She had felt from the beginning that horses were easier to understand than people. They made their wishes clear. They bestowed their affection without conditions. They didn't love you for a time, then stop loving you for no apparent reason.”

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• “August evenings on the peninsula were long, the sun lazing down the western horizon as if it had all the time in the world to go to its rest.”

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• “There was nothing like the pain of loss to teach a person that time was an illusion.”

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• “An old philosopher said you can never step in the same river twice.”

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• “Being in love is a special kind of insanity. It’s as if the mind gives way under some primal drive, a need to touch, a compulsion to possess, almost to devour.”

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• “Your father, like most men, is terrified of a woman who doesn’t fit his ideal of womanhood, because he doesn’t know how to control her. You need to remember that any frightened man is a dangerous one.”

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• “I thought of Ingrid Bergman in Gaslight, struggling to understand what was true and what was not, doubting her own sanity as her husband manipulated her.”

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• “She said, “I’m seventeen, Papa. I’m well beyond having phases. You were seventeen, as I recall, when you started your first business. You sold tools, and you made a success of it.” “That was different,” he said. “I’m a man. You’re a girl. You need a husband, and it might as well be one with a title.”

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• “Frightened people are dangerous.”

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• “Alexander had been gone twenty-five years, but the passing of the decades had not diminished her grief. There was nothing like the pain of loss to teach a person that time was an illusion.”

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• “She was wearing a day dress of apple-green pique with leg-of-mutton sleeves. Her waist was cinched so tightly Annis wondered how she could breathe.”

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• “She was lost in the miasma of her own witchery.”

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• “I held up the puppy so I could look into her dark eyes, fringed with ridiculously long black lashes. Sweet puppy breath wafted across my face, and her little heart thudded under my fingers so that I felt as if I had a hummingbird cupped in my two hands. I was in love with her even before I returned her to my chest and cradled her there. The warmth of her tiny body seeped through the bones of my rib cage to caress my sore heart, bringing sudden tears to my eyes.”

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