

“When Jo's conservative sister Meg says she must turn up her hair now that she is a "young lady," Jo shouts, "I'm not! and if turning up my hair makes me one, I'll wear it in two tails till I'm twenty.... I hate to think I've got to grow up, and be Miss March, and wear long gowns, and look as prim as a China aster! It's bad enough to be a girl anyway, when I like boys' games and work and manners! I can't get over my disappointment in not being a boy; and it's worse than ever now, for I'm dying to go and fight with Papa, and I can only stay at home and knit, like a poky old woman.”
― Little Women
― Little Women

“Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray

“I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”
― The Song of Achilles
― The Song of Achilles

“That's why we read fiction, isn't it? To remind us that whatever we suffer, we're not the only ones?”
― The Storyteller
― The Storyteller

“I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me…”
― Little Women
― Little Women

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