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It began as just a tiny idea that I let slip between my ears and sit there like a little bird on a perch. I started to like the song that it was singing to me, something sweet, joyous, and hopeful.
“What I did not know was that I had hit upon a truth of womanhood: however blameless a life we led, the passions and the greed of men could bring us to ruin, and there was nothing we could do.”
― Ariadne
― Ariadne
“The price we paid for the resentment, the lust, and the greed of arrogant men was our pain, shining and bright like the blade of a newly honed knife.”
― Ariadne
― Ariadne
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