Helen

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Pachinko

by Min Jin Lee

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Helen’s Quotes

“I do know my own mind,' protested Anne. 'The trouble is, my mind changes and then I have to get acquainted with it all over again.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island

tags: l-m-montgomery

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“But if you have big ideas you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

tags: expression, ideas, words

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“I rose too high, loved too hard, dared too much. I tried to grasp a star, overreached, and fell.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

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“My skin has turned to porcelain, to ivory, to steel.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

tags: sansa-stark

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“You do care a little for me, I know... but nothing to speak of, and you don't love me. I was yours once till death if you'd cared to keep me, but I'm someone else's now... and he's mine in a way that shocks you, but why don't you stop being shocked, and attend to your own happiness.”
― E.M. Forster, Maurice

tags: homosexual, love

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