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“Don't try so much to form your character — it's like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose. Live as you like best, and your character will take care of itself. Why indeed should we perpetually be thinking whether things are good for us, as if we were patients lying in a hospital? Why should I be so afraid of not doing right? As if it mattered to the world whether I do right or wrong!”
— Sep 05, 2026 07:33PM
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Bailey Uldrich
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I loved sinking into this world—a modern woman in an old society. The story follows a promising girl who—in pursuit of maximum freedom, choice, experience—ends up in mundane isolation.
We have always been here! Exploring and choosing and regretting and wondering the same things!
How do we fit with choice/duty/fate? In the end she faces the choice to live into her choices and their consequences or slip away.
— Sep 05, 2026 07:47PM
We have always been here! Exploring and choosing and regretting and wondering the same things!
How do we fit with choice/duty/fate? In the end she faces the choice to live into her choices and their consequences or slip away.
Bailey Uldrich
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Deeper than any appetite for renunciation — was the sense that life would be her business for a long time to come. And at moments there was something inspiring, almost enlivening, in the conviction. It was a proof of strength — it was a proof she should some day be happy again. It couldn't be she was to live only to suffer; she was still young, after all, and a great many things might happen to her yet.
— Sep 05, 2026 07:26PM