“My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.”
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“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
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“But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”
― Brave New World
― Brave New World
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