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“It was a beautiful bed, carved and enamelled, and panelled—head and foot—with woven cane. But to Gwendolyn it was, by day, a white instrument of torture”
― Eleanor Gates, The Poor Little Rich Girl

“I don’t want you learning to be like me. But I don’t know how to teach you to be anyone different.”
― Ashley Audrain, The Push

“In the bathroom, the ones who’d wanted to be Marcela’s friends told us it was impossible because she didn’t talk. She listened to them but never answered, and she stared at them so intently that it scared them.”
― Mariana Enríquez, Things We Lost in the Fire

“Then the doctor, a young man, not quite a Nihilist perhaps, but you know, eats with his knife...but a very good doctor.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina