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Books, she has found, are a way to live a thousand lives—or to find strength in a very long one.
darkness claimed he’d given her freedom, but really, there is no such thing for a woman, not in a world where they are bound up inside their clothes, and sealed inside their homes, a world where only men are given leave to roam.
“Small places make for small lives. And some people are fine with that. They like knowing where to put their feet. But if you only walk in other people’s steps, you cannot make your own way. You cannot leave a mark.”
That time always ends a second before you’re ready. That life is the minutes you want minus one.
