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“and left no doubt that Cecilia had done violence to herself.”

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“Cecilia knew she could not go on wasting her days in the stews of her untidied room, lying on her bed in a haze…

— Ian McEwan

“Initially, a simple phrase chased round and round in Cecilia's thoughts: Of course, of course. How had she not seen it? Everything was explained.…

— Ian McEwan

“Her one drink had Cecilia giggling and talking and she was explaining that animals had souls too. Nobody challenged her opinion. It was possible,…

— Charles Bukowski

“Do you think you were locked in a cupboard as a child?” Cecilia had asked him once (she wouldn’t have put it past his…

— liane moriarty

“The trust in her voice made his confidence wobble. He had no idea what he was doing. The faith and bravery that nestled inside…

— Amber Lynn Perry

“Wise as she was, she realized that people can postpone their rebellious phases until they're eighty-five years old, and she decided to keep an…

— Tove Jansson

“Halfway back up the hillside, Cecilia reached behind her, and it seemed the most natural thing in the world for Brian to lean forward…

— T. Davis Bunn

“...she immediately became the person they believed her to be: a peculiar, impatient girl, attractive enough yet too old and odd for the village…

— Daphne Kalotay

“It gave her a sudden sense that it was now her turn to grow old, to find the world changing, sliding away from the…

— John Lanchester

“Yet my confusion must be this: though her body is old, her capacity for betrayal is still young and fresh.”

— Lydia Davis

“In her experience, dead children, unlike dead adults, always looked as if they were sleeping - though she understood that there was an element…

— Chris Bohjalian