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“It is enough you dislike him”
― Anne Brontë , The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

“Please let me go now, Mr. Davenport.' He couldn't have let her go even if it would cost him his life.”
― Nina Pennacchi, Lemonade

“Meanwhile I am only twenty years old, and the days descend on me un-noticeably like dust, each one just like the rest.”
― Tove Ditlevsen, The Copenhagen Trilogy

“I have lost all that bound me to life, death smiles and invites me to rest; I die after my own manner, I die exhausted and broken-spirited, as I fall asleep when I have paced three thousand times round my cell. No sooner had this idea taken possession of him than he became more composed, arranged his couch to the best of his power, ate little, and slept less, and found this existence almost supportable, because he felt he could throw it off at will, like a worn-out garment.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo