“As for you girls, you must risk everything for Freedom, and give everything for Passion, loving everything that your hearts and your bodies love. The only thing higher for a girl and more sacred for a young woman than her freedom and her passion should be her desire to make her life into poetry, surrendering everything she has to create a life as beautiful as the dreams that dance in her imagination.”
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“Do you mind,” he asked politely, “if I slide my blade under your skin, just a little?”
― Beautiful Sorrows
― Beautiful Sorrows
“she had known the consequences when she took off, but for whatever reason, she left anyway.”
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“No more things should be presumed to exist than are absolutely necessary”
― The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
― The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
“I was an adventurer, but she was not an adventuress. She was a 'wanderess.' Thus, she didn’t care about money, only experiences - whether they came from wealth or from poverty, it was all the same to her.”
― The Wanderess
― The Wanderess
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