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Anna Katharine Green

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“You have said that if I declared my innocence you would believe me,” she exclaimed, lifting her head as I entered. “See here,” and laying her cheek against the pallid brow of her dead benefactor, she kissed the clay-cold lips softly, wildly, agonisedly, then, leaping to her feet, cried, in a subdued but thrilling tone: “Could I do that if I were guilty? Would not the breath freeze on my lips, the blood congeal in my veins, and my heart faint at this contact?”

“There is no suffering like a child's, terrified by a secret which it dare not for some reason disclose.”

“faces deceive, and the loveliness of youth is not like the loveliness of age - an absolute mirror of the soul within.”

“The hand will often reveal more than the countenance.”

“a woman with a secret may be a fascinating study, but she can never be a safe, nor even satisfactory, companion.”

“There are two kinds of artists in this world; those that work because the spirit is in them, and they cannot be silent if they would, and those that speak from a conscientious desire to make apparent to others the beauty that has awakened their own admiration.”