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“I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world”
― H.G. Wells, The Island of Dr. Moreau

“It is always interesting to see how often women are described as ravenous when it is the men who, without exception, take without thought of compensation.”
― Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

“That I have lived and killed and lived again in the name of a man who does not deserve it because I wanted so badly to be beloved. But only one person in all my lives has ever loved me, and he does not wear a crown.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Six Deaths of the Saint

“I was forced to acknowledge too late, much too late, that I too had loved, that I was capable of suffering, and that I was human after all.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men