#brooding

In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone. ↗

— Carson McCullers

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#enlightenment #expression #face #faces #life

. . . in seclusion, she had secluded herself from a thousand natural and healing influences; that, her mind, brooding solitary, had grown diseased, as all minds do and must and will that reverse the appointed order of their Maker . . . ↗

— Charles Dickens

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#diseased #mind #perverse #perverted #reverse

I love thinking about American history, thinking about LA history. I love brooding on crime. ↗

— James Ellroy

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#american #american history #brooding #crime #history