“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end.”
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“A free American girl can accommodate herself to circumstances without the aid of a man.” -Nellie Bly”
― Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World
― Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World
“He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.”
― Love in the Time of Cholera
― Love in the Time of Cholera
“That luminous part of you that exists beyond personality–your soul, if you will–is as bright and shining as any that has ever been....Clear away everything that keeps you separate from this secret luminous place. Believe it exists, come to know it better, nurture it, share its fruits tirelessly.”
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