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“I wonder if it happens in a day, for your fate to change. Or if it takes longer for your life to be stolen from you.”
― Axie Oh, The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea

“She wanted--what some people want throughout life--a grief that should deeply touch her, and thus humanize and make her capable of sympathy.”
― Nathanial Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“I've never seen anything more beautiful. I've never seen anything more terrifying.”
― Axie Oh, The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea

“It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom. Each, in its utmost development, supposes a high degree of intimacy and heart-knowledge; each renders one individual dependent for the food of his affections and spiritual life upon another; each leaves the passionate lover, or the no-less-passionate hater, forlorn and desolate by the withdrawal of his object. Philosophically considered, therefore, the two passions seem essentially the same, except that one happens to be seen in a celestial radiance and the other in a dusky and lurid glow.”
― Nathanial Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter