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Raz Mihal
“Go deeper after your feelings created by your awareness and go into your heart beyond this simple word.”
Raz Mihal, Just Love Her

Gail Carson Levine
“Instead of making me docile, Lucinda's curse made a rebel of me”
Gail Carson Levine, Ella Enchanted

Marjane Satrapi
“You know men!! As soon as you give in to them, they ignore you.”
Marjane Satrapi, Embroideries

Alexandre Dumas
“Look, look,' cried the count, seizing the young man's hands - "look, for on my soul it is curious. Here is a man who had resigned himself to his fate, who was going to the scaffold to die - like a coward, it is true, but he was about to die without resistance. Do you know what gave him strength? - do you know what consoled him? It was, that another partook of his punishment - that another partook of his anguish - that another was to die before him. Lead two sheep to the butcher's, two oxen to the slaughterhouse, and make one of them understand that his companion will not die; the sheep will bleat for pleasure, the ox will bellow with joy. But man - man, who God created in his own image - man, upon whom God has laid his first, his sole commandment, to love his neighbour - man, to whom God has given a voice to express his thoughts - what is his first cry when he hears his fellowman is saved? A blasphemy. Honour to man, this masterpiece of nature, this king of the creation!”
Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

E.M. Forster
“You care for me a little bit, I do think," he admitted, "but I can't hang all my life on a little bit. You don't. You hang yours on Anne. You don't worry whether your relation with her is platonic or not, you only know it's big enough to hang a life on.”
E.M. Forster, Maurice

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