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“If you have love, even plain cold water is sweet.”
― Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
― Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
“Humans are by nature romantic creatures. By that I don't mean full of love: I mean that they like the idea of things more than the reality of them.”
― Panenka
― Panenka
“No one likes an angry woman. She is the worst kind of villain: a witch, obnoxious and ugly and full of spite and bitterness. Shrill. I do anything to avoid that feeling, anything to stop myself from being that woman. I try to make anything resembling anger seem spunky and charming and sexy. I fold it into something small, tuck it away.”
― My Body
― My Body
“I so desperately craved men's validation that I accepted it even when it came wrapped in disrespect.”
― My Body
― My Body
“Poor, unhappy Erik! Shall we pity him? Shall we curse him? He asked only to be 'some one,' like everybody else. But he was too ugly! And he had to hide his genius or use it to play tricks with, when, with an ordinary face, he would have been one of the most distinguished of mankind! He had a heart that could have held the entire empire of the world; and, in the end, he had to content himself with a cellar. Ah, yes, we must need pity the Opera ghost...”
― The Phantom of the Opera
― The Phantom of the Opera
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