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Emily Brontë
“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same”
Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

Julian Barnes
“I loved her; we were happy; I miss her. She didn't love me; we were unhappy; I miss her.”
Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot

Margaret Atwood
“After everything that's happened, how can the world still be so beautiful? Because it is.”
Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake

Tony Kushner
“BELIZE: Louis, I’d even pray for you.      He was a terrible person. He died a hard death. So maybe . . . A queen can forgive her vanquished foe. It isn’t easy, it doesn’t count if it’s easy, it’s the hardest thing. Forgiveness. Which is maybe where love and justice finally meet. Peace, at least. Isn’t that what the Kaddish asks for?”
Tony Kushner, Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes: Revised and Complete Edition

Pat Barker
“As later Priam comes secretly to the enemy camp to plead with Achilles for the return of his son Hector's body, he says: "'I do what no man before me has ever done, I kiss the hands of the man who killed my son."
Those words echoed round me, as I stood in the storage hut, surrounded on all sides by the wealth Achilles had plundered from burning cities. I thought: "And I do what countless women before me have been forced to do. I spread my legs for the man who killed my husband and my brothers.”
Pat Barker, The Silence of the Girls

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