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“An unknown man in a lonely place is a permitted object of fear to a young woman privately bred.”
― Henry James, The Turn of the Screw

“Oh, it was a trap — not designed but deep — to my imagination, to my delicacy, perhaps to my vanity; to whatever in me was most excitable.”
― Henry James, The Turn of the Screw

“A great sorrow, and one that I am only beginning to understand: we don’t get to choose our own hearts. We can’t make ourselves want what’s good for us or what’s good for other people. We don’t get to choose the people we are.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History