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Alice is Currently Reading

Alice is currently reading

Tyrannical Wang’s Beloved Wife

by 昭昭 (Zhao Zhao)

bookshelves: currently-reading, webnovels, ebook, hist-fantasy, hist-romance, moc

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Alice’s Quotes

“That was when the ones who smiled
Were the dead, glad to be at rest.”
― Anna Akhmatova

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“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

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“But he who dares not grasp the thorn
Should never crave the rose.”
― Anne Bronte

tags: beauty, defenses, roses, thorns

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“We sit in the mud, my friend, and reach for the stars.”
― Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

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“Yet, I didn't understand that she was intentionally disguising her feelings with sarcasm; that was usually the last resort of people who are timid and chaste of heart, whose souls have been coarsely and impudently invaded; and who, until the last moment, refuse to yield out of pride and are afraid to express their own feelings to you.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

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