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Melanie
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Chains don’t teach you to break them. You learn that yourself. And you keep it, even after the shackles fade.
“Fear is a phoenix. You can watch it burn a thousand times and still it will return.”
― Crooked Kingdom
― Crooked Kingdom
“Daring to go ahead is one thing, but realising you are on the wrong boat and need to get off requires even more bravery. Especially when all your family are on board, insisting that all is well.”
― The Mushroom Tree Mystery
― The Mushroom Tree Mystery
“No mourners, no funerals. Another way of saying good luck. But it was something more. A dark wink to the fact that there would be no expensive burials for people like them, no marble markers to remember their names, no wreaths of myrtle and rose.”
― Crooked Kingdom
― Crooked Kingdom
“Why was it that women could never work hard enough to quiet their nagging fear that they were not enough? That they were falling behind? That they could and should be better?”
― The Book of Form and Emptiness
― The Book of Form and Emptiness
“I think that we are like stars. Something happens to burst us open; but when we burst open and think we are dying; we’re actually turning into a supernova. And then when we look at ourselves again, we see that we’re suddenly more beautiful than we ever were before!”
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