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“After the old lady's death, the little girl is the only truthful person left.”
― The Exchange of Princesses
― The Exchange of Princesses
“The original exchange is made in reverse. The dowager queen of Spain for the queen-infanta of France. A half-mad teenager for a deposed child.”
― The Exchange of Princesses
― The Exchange of Princesses
“When a girl leaves her home at eighteen, she does one of two things. Either she falls into saving hands and becomes better, or she rapidly assumes the cosmopolitan standard of virtue and becomes worse”
― Sister Carrie
― Sister Carrie
“I had no portrait, now, but am small, like the Wren, and my Hair is bold, like the Chestnut Bur – and my eyes, like the Sherry in the Glass, that the Guest leaves”
― Emily Dickinson’s Letters to Dr. and Mrs. Josiah Gilbert Holland
― Emily Dickinson’s Letters to Dr. and Mrs. Josiah Gilbert Holland
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