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#1

“But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.”
― Daphne du Maurier

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#2

“In worshipping their nationhood men worship themselves and scorn others, and that is no healthy thing.”
― C.J. Sansom, Dissolution

tags: nationalism, xenophobia

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#3

“Have you ever thought what a God would be like who actually ordained and executed the cruelty that is in [the biblical Book of Revelation]? A holocaust of mankind. Yet so many of these Bible-men accept the idea without a second thought.”
― C.J. Sansom, Revelation

tags: apocalypse, armageddon, book-of-revelation, cruelty, destruction, fundamentalism, holocaust, mania, orthodoxy, radicalism, religion

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#4

“I never was so immensely tickled by anything I had ever said before. I actually woke up twice during the night, and laughed till the bed shook.”
― George Grossmith, The Diary of a Nobody

tags: charles-pooter, humor, joke, sleep, wakefulness, waking

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#5

“What's the good of a home, if you are never in it?”
― George Grossmith, The Diary of a Nobody

tags: charles-pooter, home, house

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#6

“Some people seem quite destitute a sense of humour.”
― George Grossmith, The Diary of a Nobody

tags: charles-pooter, comedy, humor, sense-of-humor

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#7

“She was so hemmed in all the time by timidity and insecurity that every once in a while some self-destructive impulse in her demanded brash action. It was the same impulse that had made her send those photos to Simon. She had no control over it.”
― Alexandra Andrews, Vem är Maud Dixon?

tags: confidence, impulses, insecurity, self-destructive-behaviour

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#8

“And without even trying, she fell in love.

Not with some guy who sent her an e-mail or posted a profile. No, she'd found someone else. Someone who'd always been around but to whom she'd never really given a second thought.

Herself.”
― Kate Jacobs, The Friday Night Knitting Club

tags: independence, relationships, self-esteem

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#9

“Women do amazing, creative, wonderful things.”
― Kate Jacobs, The Friday Night Knitting Club

tags: women

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#10

“I compare myself with my former self, not with others. Not only that, I tend to compare my current self with the best I have been, which is when I have been midly manic. When I am my present "normal" self, I am far removed from when I have been my liveliest, most productive, most intense, most outgoing and effervescent. In short, for myself, I am a hard act to follow.”
― Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

tags: bipolar, mania, manic, mental-illness, psychology

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#11

“[ ] manic sex isn't really intercourse. It's dicourse, just another way to ease the insatiable need for contact and communication. In place of words, I simply spoke with my skin.”
― Terri Cheney, Manic: A Memoir

tags: communism, mania, manic, manic-depression, sex, skin, spoke

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#12

“Sometimes the good moments hurt much more than the bad.”
― Kate Jacobs, The Friday Night Knitting Club

tags: bad-times, emotions, good-times, good-times-and-bad-times, longing

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#13

“I am searching for one thing—a connection, however fleeting, to anchor me.”
― Marie Benedict, The Personal Librarian

tags: emotions, hope, stability

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#14

“One day, Belle, we will be able to reach back through the decades and claim you as one of our own. Your accomplishments will be part of history; they’ll show doubtful white people what colored people can do. Until that time, live your life proudly.”
― Marie Benedict, The Personal Librarian

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#15

“I feel him, too. I suppose he was always larger than life, so we shouldn’t expect death to eradicate him from our existence.”
― Marie Benedict, The Personal Librarian

tags: death, mourning, remembrance

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#16

“Sometimes a man doesn't want to be strong. Sometimes a man just wants to be human.”
― Victoria Christopher Murray, Never Say Never

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#17

“Nothing brought them more joy than the fall of a lovely woman. They picked over her reputation like vultures, scavenging for every scrap of flesh they could devour.”
― Jennifer Saint, Elektra

tags: sexism, women, women-s-success

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#18

“Let him come back so that I can see his eyes as the light drains from them. Let him come back and die at the hands of his bitterest enemy. Let him come back so that I can watch him suffer. And let me make it slow.”
― Jennifer Saint, Elektra

tags: loss-of-a-child, vengeance, women, wrath

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#19

“Visit a fruit farm and then head to the kitchen with your mounded baskets to capture fragrant summer in numerous jars: the preparation for dark days must always begin during the brightest ones.”
― Lia Leendertz, The Almanac: A seasonal guide to 2022

tags: life-philosophy, life-quotes-and-sayings, nature, preparation

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#20

“So we have free will I suppose."

"More's the pity. I always thought it would be rather relaxing to have one's life organised by the Fates.”
― Sarah Perry, Melmoth

tags: choices, fate, free-will, responsibility

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#21

“It didn’t matter where you were, if you were in a room full of books you were at least halfway home.”
― Lev Grossman, The Magician's Land

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#22

“In the old romantic comedies, those of our childhoods, there was always the running scene, was there not? Through the crowd. Dashing, not a moment to spare. To the choice that should’ve been clear as day. To destiny. When you know how the rest of your life should be lived, you want to start the rest of your life as soon as possible.

My destination, though—not a man, but my true and best self.”
― Lauren Edmondson, Ladies of the House: A Modern Retelling of Sense and Sensibility

tags: save-yourself, spirit, strength, women-s-inspirational

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#23

“We have to live on our own terms, not disappearing into someone else’s expectations for us.”
― Lauren Edmondson, Ladies of the House: A Modern Retelling of Sense and Sensibility

tags: expectations, independence, living-life

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#24

“Because nothing good in this world was made so by a woman keeping her mouth shut.”
― Lauren Edmondson, Ladies of the House: A Modern Retelling of Sense and Sensibility

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#25

“...people can be infected by optimism.”
― Lauren Edmondson, Ladies of the House: A Modern Retelling of Sense and Sensibility

tags: hope, optimism, positive-thinking, positivity

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#26

“How unfair it was that women have to make the choice to be nice or to be powerful.

“Don’t let what other people say, good or bad, pressure you into feeling small. The world does that enough to women. I won’t let it happen to my own sister.”
― Lauren Edmondson, Ladies of the House: A Modern Retelling of Sense and Sensibility

tags: fairness-and-unfairness, women-empowerment, women-s-strength, workplace-culture

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#27

“I was aware I was still a spectacle, but the trauma I might have felt months ago never surfaced. Whatever they thought about me, finally, was not the same as what I thought about myself.”
― Lauren Edmondson, Ladies of the House: A Modern Retelling of Sense and Sensibility

tags: confidence, growth, power-of-thoughts, self-acceptance, self-assurance, self-belief

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#28

“An original inscription,” I continued, “reads, ‘Woman first denied a soul, then called mindless, now arisen, declaring herself an entity to be reckoned.”
― Lauren Edmondson, Ladies of the House: A Modern Retelling of Sense and Sensibility

tags: equality, suffragettes, women-s-suffrage

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#29

“For now, though, we will not worry about what will become of us. We will ask instead: What will the world become because of us?”
― Lauren Edmondson, Ladies of the House: A Modern Retelling of Sense and Sensibility

tags: legacy

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#30

“For women everywhere. Be your own gods. Your Mother commands it.”
― Nikki Marmery, Lilith

tags: empowerment, goddess, women-empowerment, women-s-strength

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