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#1

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: character, empowerment, flaws, freedom, gender, identity, image, independence, integrity, realism, self-awareness, self-determination, women

13878 likes

#2

“He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

tags: love

12900 likes

#3

“I would give up the unessential; I would give up my money, I would give up my life for my children; but I wouldn't give myself. I can't make it more clear; it's only something I am beginning to comprehend, which is revealing itself to me.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening

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#4

“I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.”
― Jane Austen, Jane Austen's Letters

tags: friends, humor, people

8992 likes

#5

“In the midst of life, we are in death.”
― Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None

tags: death, life

439 likes

#6

“Without a filter, a man is just chaos walking.”
― Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go

1075 likes

#7

“But a knife ain't just a thing, is it? It's a choice, it's something you do. A knife says yes or no, cut or not, die or don't. A knife takes a decision out of your hand and puts it in the world and it never goes back again. ”
― Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go

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#8

“To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility.”
― Patrick Ness, Monsters of Men

tags: choice, cowardice, responsibility

900 likes

#9

“He is slow, and the sea sings to us both, but he returns to me.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Scorpio Races

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#10

“It is the first day of November and so, today, someone will die.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Scorpio Races

tags: fantasy, horses, ireland, monsters, november

541 likes

#11

“She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening

tags: self

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#12

“The voice of the sea speaks to the soul.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening

2794 likes

#13

“I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

3500 likes

#14

“Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I can not live without my life! I can not live without my soul!”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

tags: love

4463 likes

#15

“But Harrowhark—Harrow, who was two hundred dead children; Harrow, who loved something that had not been alive for ten thousand years—Harrowhark Nonagesimus had always so badly wanted to live. She had cost too much to die.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth

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#16

“I love a little gall on gall.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth

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#17