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Madelon Wentink
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“Not even knowledge takes all the strangeness from the world”
― The Essex Serpent
― The Essex Serpent
“Every time you take one path, you must live with the memory of the other: of a life left unchosen. Decide as seems best, one course or the other; each way will have its bitter with its sweet.”
― The Girl in the Tower
― The Girl in the Tower
“Wild birds die in cages.”
― The Bear and the Nightingale
― The Bear and the Nightingale
“But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me.”
― Circe
― Circe
“I have plucked snowdrops at Midwinter, died at my own choosing, and wept for a nightingale. Now I am beyond prophecy.”
― The Winter of the Witch
― The Winter of the Witch
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