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“Yet there was something gratifyingly real about being called a bitch, a whore, a blond tramp. Where so much was a dreamy haze, anything promising to be real was bracing.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, Blonde

“There's a war going on Ms. Bennett, you are but one person, so that means that a café is looted, yes, but it didn't burn. You can't save the world, but keep trying in any small way you can.”
― Madeline Martin, The Last Bookshop in London