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“... and how gladly he would have taken up the load of any one of them, if only he might have shaken off his own! But, no - the iron circle of consciousness held them too: each one was hand-cuffed to his own hideous ego. Why wish to be any one man rather than another? The only absolute good was not to be...”
― Edith Wharton

“I’m bound to you, Stern. To the woman who brought me out of hell. I will serve you ’til the end of days.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent

“For a decade, I've known I will never have everything and so all I've wanted is to believe that, someday, again, I'll have enough. The ache won't always be so bad. No ice ever freezes too thick to thaw and no thorns ever grow too dense to be cut away.”
― Emily Henry, Book Lovers

“I must forgive myself for being in some of the situations I’ve been in. For staying. For putting up with less than I deserve. There is no shame in what I went through.”
― Lily Collins, Unfiltered: No Shame, No Regrets, Just Me