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"What Maisie Knew" Quotes
A young girl navigates her complicated and tumultuous family life in this insightful exploration of innocence and betrayal.
Quotes
They had at no moment the illusion of not being understood.
For the first time Miss Overmore spoke. "It seems to me a cruel shame."
"Everything's the same?" - "Everything's the same."
She had learned that her father was, beyond all things else, a little lover of peace.
A time came when she nearly fell into the error of confounding him with the acquired trace of some vulgar ties.
She grows up too fast!
"She wouldn't notice, darling. She doesn't notice."
They had no business with the right thought, which could only be thought when the right word had at least been found!
"It wouldn't; I'd speak to her from the window."
The mother was what the nurses call 'a bad patient'.
