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“Don’t cry, Treasure. You’ll get me all wet and then I’ll melt. I’m made of sugar, don’t you know.”
― Kady Cross, The Girl in the Steel Corset

“How ghastly for her, people actually thinking, with their brains, and right next door. Oh, the travesty of it all.”
― Gail Carriger, Soulless

“You are not worth the dust which the rude wind blows in your face”
― William Shakespeare, King Lear

“I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Steampunk is...the love child of Hot Topic and a BBC costume drama”
― Gail Carriger

“But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well!”
― Charlotte Brontë, The Letters of Charlotte Brontë

“I have died and gone to the land of bad novels.”
― Gail Carriger, Blameless

“Classic author moment, "Oh dear, did I kill that character or not?”
― Gail Carriger

“There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.”
― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

“Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.”
― Charles Dickens

“A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

“We need never be ashamed of our tears.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“To love another person is to see the face of God.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.”
― Victor Hugo

“Those who do not weep, do not see.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Be the most you can be, so life will be more because you were.
Susan Glaspell, author ”
― Susan Glaspell

“It was the people who tried to seem normal all the time who were really messed up”
― Todd Mitchell, The Secret to Lying

“A fragment for my friend--
If your soul left this earth I would follow and find you
Silent, my starship suspended in night”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven