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“I loved him very much—more than I could trust myself to say—more than words had power to express.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“One of our culture’s least helpful pieces of advice is that women need to change the way they speak to sound less “like women” (or that queer people need to sound straighter, or that people of color need to sound whiter). The way any of these folks talk isn’t inherently more or less worthy of respect. It only sounds that way because it reflects an underlying assumption about who holds more power in our culture.”
― Amanda Montell, Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language

“It was a sin, and I knew it, and suddenly I realized that I didn't care. For if sin was all I had standing between myself and the darkness, I would take it.”
― Isabel Cañas, The Hacienda

“Does he love you so much?" "He would commit murder for me.”
― Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera