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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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“Her coming was my hope each day,
Her parting was my pain;
The chance that did her steps delay
Was ice in every vein.”
― Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

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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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“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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“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

tags: romantic

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