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“I bet you have a nice smile,” he says.

“Do you know how many people have died trying that?” I ask him.”
― Maria Dahvana Headley, Unnatural Creatures

“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.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“If you come from where I come from, all you do is want. And if you had even the smallest taste of what I have, you would never stop wanting.”
― Danielle Paige

“It is a common saying that women are delicate creatures, flowers, eggs, anything that may be crushed in a moment's carelessness. If I had ever believed it, I no longer did.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe