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North and South

by Elizabeth Gaskell

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The Outsiders

by S.E. Hinton (Goodreads Author)

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A Little Feminist History of Art

by Charlotte Mullins

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“Oh, sleep. Nothing else could ever bring me such pleasure, such freedom, the power to feel and move and think and imagine, safe from the miseries of my waking consciousness.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

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“the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses”
― E.E. Cummings, Selected Poems

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“that expression you get in your eyes when you are very tired and everything is like a dream and you are starting to know what things are like underneath what people say they are.”
― Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight

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“Forget safety.
Live where you fear to live.
Destroy your reputation.
Be notorious.”
― Rumi

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“She knew what desire was — though she didn’t know she knew. It was like this: she was starving but not for food, it was a kind of painful taste that rose from the pit of her stomach and made her nipples quiver and her arms empty without an embrace.”
― Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

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