“Ay, do despise me! I'm the prouder for it; I like to be despised.”
The Hypocrite (1768), Act v, scene 1.
Source: Earthsea Books, The Farthest Shore (1972), Chapter 6, "Lorbanery" (Ged)
“Ay, do despise me! I'm the prouder for it; I like to be despised.”
The Hypocrite (1768), Act v, scene 1.
“No one in the world like my sister Birdie.”
Source: Water Street (2006), Chapters 11-20, p. 84; spoken by Hughie
“Aye, you white dog, you are like all your race; but to a black man gold can never pay for blood.”
A former chief of Abombi to Conan
"The Scarlet Citadel" (1933)
" Between Us Now, http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/between-us-now/" lines 21-24, from Poems of the Past and Present (1901)
“The trees like lungs filling with air
My sister, the mean one, pulling my hair”
Source: The Virgin Suicides