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“& if some natures have to be refined by the sun, & some by the furnace (the less genial ones--) both means are to be recognized as good; . . . however different in pleasurableness & painfulness, & tho' furnace-fire leaves scorched streaks upon the fruit--.”
― Elizabeth Barrett Browning, The Love Letters of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning

“I hope you'll never become so good at building walls that you can't see when they need to be pulled down.”
― Susan Kay, Das Phantom: Die bisher ungeschriebene Lebensgeschichte des "Phantoms der Oper"

“Forgive me. I am shy by nature:--& by position & experience, . . . by having had my nerves shaken to excess, & by leading a life of such seclusion, . . . by these things together & by others besides, I have appeared shy & ungrateful to you. Only not mistrustful. You could not mean to judge me so. Mistrustful people do not write as I write, . . . surely!”
― Elizabeth Barrett Browning, The Love Letters of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning

“Tell me something true, or tell me nothing at all.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War