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“Oh!  I will give my heart to God,” I said.  “You do not want it.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“There’s no reason to worry.”
― Shannon Messenger, Keeper of the Lost Cities

“I quite lost myself, gazing at this work of art. . . It thrilled me, that sculpture. For one thing, it reminded me that in my new life, I may have other such experiences. I needn't always be an ignorant girl. The world will offer itself to me like a chalice brimming with immortal wine, and I will quaff from it.”
― Laura Amy Schlitz, The Hired Girl

“To you first entering on life, to whom care is new, and agony unknown, how can you understand what I have felt, and still feel?”
― Mary Shelley