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“For if life had taught her anything, it was that healing and peace can begin only with acknowledgment of wrongs committed.”
― Mornings in Jenin
― Mornings in Jenin
“I do suspect that he is not really necessary to my happiness.”
― Emma
― Emma
“Only that: we are here. This is what it means to swim in the tide, to walk the earth and feel it touch your feet. This is what it means to be alive.”
― Circe
― Circe
“I could not find myself making any use of the word sacrifice," said she. "I do suspect that he is not really necessary to my happiness. So much the better. I certainly will not persuade myself to feel more than I do. I am quite enough in love. I should be sorry to be more.”
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“of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to the mind when it has one seized on it like a lichen on the rock. I wished sometimes to shake off all thought and feeling, but I learned that there was, but one means to overcome the sensation of pain, and that was death– a state which I feared but did not understand.”
― Frankenstein: The Definitive 1831 Edition of the Gothic Horror Classic
― Frankenstein: The Definitive 1831 Edition of the Gothic Horror Classic
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