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“I fear I will always have to chase the things I want. I'll always have to wonder whether I'm truly wanted or whether I've just been settled for.”
― A Great and Terrible Beauty
― A Great and Terrible Beauty
“May I suggest that you all read? And often. Believe me, it's nice to have something to talk about other than the weather and the Queen's health. Your mind is not a cage. It's a garden. And it requires cultivating.”
― A Great and Terrible Beauty
― A Great and Terrible Beauty
“I changed the world; the world changed me.
Everything you do comes back to you. When you affect a situation, you are also affected.”
― A Great and Terrible Beauty
Everything you do comes back to you. When you affect a situation, you are also affected.”
― A Great and Terrible Beauty
“The face staring back at me isn't beautiful but she isn't something that would scare the horses, either.”
― A Great and Terrible Beauty
― A Great and Terrible Beauty
“But forgiveness...I'll hold on to that fragile slice of hope and keep it close, remembering that in each of us lie good and bad, light and dark, art and pain, choice and regret, cruelty and sacrifice. We're each of us our own...bit of illusion fighting to emerge into something solid, something real. We've got to forgive ourselves that. I must remember to forgive myself. Because there's an awful lot of gray to work with. No one can live in the light all the time.”
― A Great and Terrible Beauty
― A Great and Terrible Beauty
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