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he appeared willing to love me only provided that I continually demonstrate my nothingness.
“I know why we try to keep the dead alive: we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with us. I also know that if we are to live ourselves there comes a point at which we must relinquish the dead, let them go, keep them dead. ”
― The Year of Magical Thinking
― The Year of Magical Thinking
“I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
“I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
“Read, learn, work it up, go to the literature.
Information is control.”
― The Year of Magical Thinking
Information is control.”
― The Year of Magical Thinking
“What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.”
― Paper Towns
― Paper Towns
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