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“[I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world.]”
― Anne Lister, The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister: Volume I

“Now they were as strangers; worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

“You are the door at the edge of the world. You are the door that opens onto a sea of stars.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Lighthousekeeping: A Magical Realism Novel of Storytelling and Identity at a Remote Lighthouse