Avalon is full of desperate people.’ She bites at her lower lip this time, fumbling her hands, knitting her fingers into the bundle of plastic coin bags in her grasp. ‘Are you implying that I’m desperate?’ I say, one eyebrow tilting. ‘You don’t need to be desperate… you can have anyone... I…’ she trails off. Looking up and trying to search the line of shops for the bank. I repulse her, I make her want to run. Why is this so hard? I need to get inside of her, I need to know what she is thinking, what she is wanting. It surely isn’t me she wants. Not to the extent that I… want her. ‘You?’ I entice her to finish her sentence but she doesn’t, she stares off into the bustling crowds, memory flashing her eyes with a darkness. ‘Madi wouldn’t fumble like this.’ Oh, she would fumble, but not in the way you are, Elli. ‘You’re not her, Elli.’ I entice her again, trying to force the dark memory, the sadness from her. ‘No, if I was, you wouldn’t have wanted anyone else.’ A breath hitches in her throat, she puts a hand over her mouth and says something else, her cheeks dance a shade of red that brightens and brightens until she apologises and quickens her pace. I chuckle, pulling at her arm and encircling one around her waist, pulling her back to me. Beneath my touch, her body trembles. When I raise my hand, my palm touching her cheek, I am sure she isn’t breathing. ‘I don’t want anyone, Elli.’ My eyes burn, consuming her with my gaze. She is like a frightful deer, struggling beneath me with a gaze that cannot quite meet mine. When she does, it is only for a brief second before falling down and all I see is the gentle flutter of her raven flashes. ‘I told you. I want someone I cannot have.’ ‘That is a really harsh way of telling someone you’re not interested.
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CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather th... CHARLOTTE BRONTE I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the mor... CHARLOTTE BRONTë I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or becau... CHARLOTTE BRONTë I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the ge... CHARLOTTE BRONTë No sight so sad as that of a naughty child," he began, "especially a naughty little girl. Do you kno... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Jane, you are my confidante, my helpmate, my friend. My lover. You are everything the word wife mean... CHARLOTTE FEATHERSTONE I know what it is to live entirely for and with what I love best on earth. I hold myself supremely b... CHARLOTTE BRONTë The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to st... CHARLOTTE BRONTë I can be on guard against my enemies, but God deliver me from my friends! CHARLOTTE BRONTë Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think w... CHARLOTTE BRONTë I am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. CHARLOTTE BRONTë Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt! May your eyes never shed such stormy, scalding, ... CHARLOTTE BRONTë I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, ... CHARLOTTE BRONTë I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will. CHARLOTTE BRONTë You can kid the world, but not your sister. CHARLOTTE GRAY Monsieur, if a wife's nature loathes that of the man she is wedded to, marriage must be slavery. Aga... CHARLOTTE BRONTë I doubt if I have made the best use of all my calamities. Soft, amiable natures they would have refi... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its ... CHARLOTTE BRONTë So you will meet many ’someones’ who will give a new definition to your name. And you can ... CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON Flirting is a woman’s trade, one must keep in practice. CHARLOTTE BRONTë The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter - ... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Friends always forget those whom fortune forsakes. CHARLOTTE BRONTë If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love our friends for their sakes rathe... CHARLOTTE BRONTë I would always rather be happy than dignified. CHARLOTTE BRONTë Take a shower, wash off the day. Drink a glass of water. Make the room dark. Lie down and close your... CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON The stars are brilliant at this time of night and I wander these streets like a ritual I don�... CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON So I am not a broken heart. I am not the weight I lost or miles or ran and I am not the way I ... CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON I want to learn how to speak to anyone at any time and make us both feel a little bit better, lighte... CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON You -- poor and obscure, and small and plain as you are -- I entreat to accept me as a husband. CHARLOTTE BRONTE As to the sufferers, whose sole inheritance was labour, and who had lost that inheritance - who coul... CHARLOTTE BRONTE America is like an unfaithful love who promises us more than we got. CHARLOTTE BUNCH If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather tha... CHARLOTTE BRONTE It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and t... CHARLOTTE BRONTE Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not... CHARLOTTE WHITTON But this I know; the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always... CHARLOTTE BRONTE Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs. We are, and mus... CHARLOTTE BRONTE In soliciting donations from his flock, a preacher may promise eternal life in a celestial city whos... CHARLOTTE OBSERVER I tell you I must go! Do you think I can stay to become nothing to you? Do you think I am an automa... CHARLOTTE BRONTE An isolated outbreak of virginity is a rash on the face of society. It arouses only pity from the ma... CHARLOTTE BINGHAM Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, w... CHARLOTTE BRONTE Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to a... CHARLOTTE BRONTE Reason sits firm and holds the reins, and she will not let the feelings burst away and hurry her to ... CHARLOTTE BRONTE Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never be... CHARLOTTE BRONTE I cannot sing the old songs, Or dream those dreams again, CHARLOTTE BARNARD Firm, faithful, and devoted, full of energy and zeal, and truth, he labors for his race; he clears t... CHARLOTTE BRONTE You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourse... CHARLOTTE BRONTE One does not jump, and spring, and shout hurrah! at hearing one has got a fortune, one begins to con... CHARLOTTE BRONTE There's no use in weeping, Though we are condemned to part: There's such a thing as keeping CHARLOTTE BRONTE Feeling without judgment is a washy draught indeed; but judgment untempered by feeling is too bitter... CHARLOTTE BRONTE Life is so constructed that an event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation. CHARLOTTE BRONTE Look twice before you leap. CHARLOTTE BRONTE