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Okay okay hear me out, a literate midwife with a hot loving husband with 9 kids and takes literally no bullshit from anyone, existed! This book is based on Martha, a midwife that lived in Maine USA in the 1700s. This story revolves around a murder, a ...more "
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“Plenty of humans were monstrous, and plenty of monsters knew how to play at being human.”
― Vicious
― Vicious
“Nothing is so indecent that it cannot be said to another person if the proper words are used to convey it.”
― The Decameron
― The Decameron
“I have tried the way of the misanthrope, the way of the deviant, the philosopher, the observer, the pretender. But there is one road I have not seriously considered walking down, have not permitted myself to. Perhaps it is time.”
― Maeve Fly
― Maeve Fly
“I was forced to acknowledge too late, much too late, that I too had loved, that I was capable of suffering, and that I was human after all.”
― I Who Have Never Known Men
― I Who Have Never Known Men
“An elk mother, cornered, will slash with her hooves and tear with her mouth and even offer the hope of her own hamstrings, and if none of that works, she'll rise again years and years later, because it's never over, it's always just beginning again.”
― The Only Good Indians
― The Only Good Indians
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