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“Flavia said: "How is one to live - if every step leads to another?"
"Like that," said Constanza.”
― Sybille Bedford, A Favourite of the Gods

“But in Shakespeare's world, passion is irresistible, not embarrassing.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“He was twenty-four, ready for adventure, and happy to go wherever the winds took him. He'd better be, as Hester reminded him; he wasn't going to go anywhere else.”
― Philip Pullman, Once Upon a Time in the North

“Inexplicably, I felt a war was coming on, and for many nights I had dreams that I died in battle. I dreamed of mountains that crumbled and rivers that flooded. My dreams were apocalyptic and savage. I began to fear that I was a prophet and that I would soon be called upon to speak. I waited for God's voice.”
― Dean Bakopoulos, Please Don't Come Back from the Moon