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“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
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“Bad books on writing tell you to "WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW", a solemn and totally false adage that is the reason there exist so many mediocre novels about English professors contemplating adultery.”
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“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
“It isn't that we do what we want. It's that we're allowed to want at all.”
― A Great and Terrible Beauty
― A Great and Terrible Beauty
“I want to ask him if it’s possible that a girl can be born unlovable, or does she just become that way?”
― A Great and Terrible Beauty
― A Great and Terrible Beauty
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