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Claire’s Quotes

“Of all the ways to die, only a fool chooses pride.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Conjuring of Light

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“I have a whole life to tell; I have nothing left to lose and few to offend.”
― Lisa See, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

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“That’s how you get deathless, volchitsa. Walk the same tale over and over, until you wear a groove in the world, until even if you vanished, the tale would keep turning, keep playing, like a phonograph, and you’d have to get up again, even with a bullet through your eye, to play your part and say your lines.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless

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“But yes,” he said wearily. “As I could, I loved you. Now will you go? Live.” “I, too,” she said. “In a childish way, as girls love heroes that come in the night, I loved you.”
― Katherine Arden, The Girl in the Tower

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“These are universals, as is the fear women feel during times of political upheaval that occur in what could still be called the outside world of men--whether during the Taiping Rebellion so many years ago or today for women in Iraq, Afghanistan, the Sudan, or even right here in this country in the post-9/11 era. On the surface, we as American women are independent, free, and mobile, but at our cores we still long for love, friendship, happiness, tranquility, and to be heard.”
― Lisa See, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

tags: author-s-acknowledgement, author-s-note, inspirational, women-s-rights

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