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“If the Agency could become a container for something neither Anna nor Mary had known before: a family. Now, without Caroline depending on her, Anna was alone. It did not taste good. There were voices inside: I am risking everything; I could lose everything.”
― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods

“Today I plan to smile a lot, only so people who know me will be freaked the fuck out.”
― R.D. Ronald

“The holy act of sex, my sex, done in your name, done for the only, the best reason. Because we want it.”
― Dorothy Allison, Skin: Talking about Sex, Class, and Literature