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“Now I feel myself a book, as books must seem to her: she looks at me with unreading eyes, sees the shape, but not the meaning of the text. She marks the white flesh ―‘Ain't you pale!’ she says ― but not the quick, corrupted blood beneath.” — Sarah Waters

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Now I feel myself a book, as books must seem to her: she looks at me with unreading eyes, sees the shape, but not the meaning of the text. She marks the white flesh ―‘Ain't you pale!’ she says ― but not the quick, corrupted blood beneath.
— Sarah Waters