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Persuasion

by Jane Austen

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“If you don't like my peaches, don't shake my tree.”
― Shirley Jackson

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“My thinking has always been that if love, marriage, and family were intrinsically so meaningful, so exceptional, and so necessary, then we wouldn't need millennia of propaganda selling them to us.”
― Chelsea G. Summers, A Certain Hunger

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“Previously these communities were imposed on us, along with their mental weather. Now we chose them—or believed that we did. A person might join a site to look at pictures of her nephew and five years later believe in a flat earth.”
― Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This

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“This was, of course, the tenth or hundredth beauty of loving someone new: you were introduced to books you had not read before”
― Sylvia Brownrigg, Pages for Her

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“Grief's only ever as deep as the love it's replaced.”
― Pat Barker, The Silence of the Girls

tags: grief, grief-and-loss, historical-fiction, love, war

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