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Jane Austen
“I cannot make speeches Emma... if I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.”
Jane Austen, Emma

Georgia   Scott
“Before there is science, there are stories to explain the world. They make it happier somehow.”
Georgia Scott, American Girl: Memories That Made Me

James Baldwin
“I had thought of suicide when I was much younger, as, possibly, we all have, but then it would have been for revenge, it would have been my way of informing the world how awfully it made me suffer.”
James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

Stephanie Garber
“But you have to have a working heart for it to break.”
Stephanie Garber, Once Upon a Broken Heart

D.H. Lawrence
“My sex is me as my mind is me, and nobody will make me feel shame about it.”
Lawrence, D H

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