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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

“She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.”
― Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

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“You're trapped both ways. You do as you are told and you do things that you think will make you big, but all the time you're shrinking.”
― Helen Dunmore, House of Orphans

tags: inspirational, life

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“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: character, empowerment, flaws, freedom, gender, identity, image, independence, integrity, realism, self-awareness, self-determination, women

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“I believe in some blending of hope and sunshine sweetening the worst lots. I believe that this life is not all; neither the beginning nor the end. I believe while I tremble; I trust while I weep.”
― Charlotte Bronte, Villette

tags: inspirational

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“Afraid of decision, I buried my finer feelings in the depths of my heart and they died there.”
― Mikhail Lermontov, A Hero of Our Time

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