Sherwood Smith - Sick Quotes

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'It desolates me to disappoint you, but your brother is not here. Despite two really praiseworthy attempts at rescue.'
... The hint of amusement irritated me, and sick and hurt as I was, I simply had to retort something. 'Glad... at least... you're desolated.'

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I've been working hard at assuming Court polish, but the more I learn about what really goes on behind the pretty voices and waving fans and graceful bows, the more I comprehend that what is really said matters little, so long as the manner in which it is said pleases. I understand it, but I don't like it. Were I truly influential, then I would halt this foolishness that decrees that in Court one cannot be sick; that to admit you are sick is really to admit to political or social or romantic defeat; that to admit to any emotions usually means one really feels the opposite. It is a terrible kind of falsehood that people can only claim feelings as a kind of social weapon.

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