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“The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.”
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“I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
“No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. What does such advice mean? Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure. Happiness is a glory shining far down upon us out of Heaven. She is a divine dew which the soul, on certain of its summer mornings, feels dropping upon it from the amaranth bloom and golden fruitage of Paradise.”
― Villette
― Villette
“Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
THE VEIL OF ALCHEMY
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The Veil of Alchemy is a reading series dedicated to the voices that knew how to admire truth, to the creators who transformed pain, dreams, and darkn ...more
Denise’s 2025 Year in Books
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