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“Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord. Have you forgotten your lessons?” “I can quote scripture, too. Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau

“To know that when one phase of a relationship ends it can transform into something else. It is to acknowledge that love is both a constant and a variable at the same time.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“That strange dividing line inside her body, the crack that seemed to nestle at the center of her being, now felt deep and solid. A fault line, filled with dread and anger. It scared her, this capacity for strength, for violence. It also awed her.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau

“The past is mine, but it does not own me.”
― Elodie Harper, Boudicca's Daughter