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“Death is Peaceful, Life is Harder”
― Stephenie Meyer, Twilight

“Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?”
― Virginia Woolf

“The truth is, men make terrible pigs.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.”
― Jane Austen, Jane Austen's Letters

“Yet because I knew nothing, nothing was beneath me.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“But to die as lovers may - to die together, so that they may live together.”
― Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

“The sky had never seemed so sky; the world had never seemed so world.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“It's never occurred to me that the stars are still up there shining even in the daytime when we can't see them.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“I wish I’d a knowed more people. I would of loved ‘em all. If I’d a knowed more, I would a loved more”
― Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

“They said, “You are a savage and dangerous woman.”
I am speaking the truth. And the truth is savage and dangerous.”
― Nawal El Saadawi, Woman at Point Zero

“All the men I did get to know, every single man of them, has filled me with but one desire: to lift my hand and bring it smashing down on his face.”
― Nawal El Saadawi, Woman at Point Zero