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“Fleurs du mal,” Eve heard herself saying, and shivered. “What?” “Baudelaire. We are not flowers to be plucked and shielded, Captain. We are flowers who flourish in evil.”
― Kate Quinn, The Alice Network

“there are worse things
than being alone
but it often takes
decades to realize this
and most often when you do
it's too late
and there's nothing worse
than too late”
― Charles Bukowski

“What did it matter if something scared you, when it simply had to be done?”
― Kate Quinn, The Alice Network

“Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief