“A woman’s past need not predict her future. She can dance to new music if she chooses. Her own music. To hear the tune, she must only stop talking. To herself, I mean. We’re always trying to persuade ourselves of things.”
― Before We Were Yours
― Before We Were Yours
“It’s better to see and know you’re a fool than to keep your eyes shut and keep acting like one.”
― Dark Witch
― Dark Witch
“You think I don’t know how that feels? There’s only one response, and I can tell you this because I see it every day. You live. And you throw yourself into everything and try not to think about the bruises.” “Oh,”
― After You
― After You
“Love, as he knew too well, could slice you to pieces and leave no visible scar.”
― Dark Witch
― Dark Witch
“Because of the very nature of the world as it is today, our children receive in school a heavy load of scientific and analytic subjects, so it is in their reading for fun, for pleasure, that they must be guided into creativity. These are forces working in the world as never before in the history of mankind for standardization, for the regimentation of us all, or what I like to call making muffins of us, muffins all like every other muffin in the muffin tin.”
― A Wrinkle in Time
― A Wrinkle in Time
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