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“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

“Oh, we’ll still hate each other, my dear, we have hated each other too long and too passionately to stop… but my bones will rest easy next to your bones.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth

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

“Such is frequently the fate, and such the stern development, of the feminine characters and person, when the woman has encountered, and lived through, an experience of peculiar severity. If she be all tenderness, she will die. If she survive, the tenderness will either be crushed out of her, or--and the outward semblance is the same--crushed so deeply into her heart that it can never show itself more.”
― Nathanial Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter