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The Secret Garden

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

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Jul 06, 2014 01:36AM

“I have also read that the Pox was caused by accidentally coinciding climatic, economic, and sociological crises. It would be more honest to say that the Pox was caused by our own refusal to deal with obvious problems in those areas. We caused the problems: then we sat and watched as they grew into crises.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents

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“But there are no men here,” said Mrs. Wilkins, “so how can it be improper? Have you noticed,” she inquired of Mrs. Fisher, who endeavoured to pretend she did not hear, “How difficult it is to be improper without men?”
― Elizabeth von Arnim, The Enchanted April

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“For even a good man was more deadly than the worst of bears,”
― Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds

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“People think it's just hellfire and brimstone, four horsemen and out, but actually the end times go on and on and on.”
― Julia Armfield, Private Rites

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“We go on having stupid wars that we justify and get passionate about, but in the end, all they do is kill huge numbers of people, maim others, impoverish still more, spread disease and hunger, and set the stage for the next war. And when we look at all of that in history, we just shrug our shoulders and say, well, that’s the way things are. That’s the way things always have been.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents

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