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#1

“I knew that Kitty and I felt just the same- only, of course, about different things. I should have remembered this, later.”
― Sarah Waters, Tipping the Velvet

tags: chapter-3, kitty-butler, nancy-astley, tipping-the-velvet

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#2

“If they came sorrowing, and wanting sympathy in a complicated trouble like the present, then they would be felt as a shadow in all these houses of intimate acquaintances, not friends”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South

tags: chapter-vi, farewell, north-and-south

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#3

“Faey lived, for those who knew how to find her, within Ombria's past. Parts of the city's past lay within time's reach, beneath the streets in great old limestone tunnels: the hovels and mansions and sunken river that Ombria shrugged off like a forgotten skin, and buried beneath itself through the centuries.”
― Patricia A. McKillip, Ombria in Shadow

tags: chapter-two, enchanted-heart, faey, fantasy, page-14

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#4

“There was the gaudy patch of sunflowers beside the west gate of the palace of the Prince of Ombria, that did nothing all day long but turn their golden-haired, thousand-eyed faces to follow the sun.”
― Patricia A. McKillip, Ombria in Shadow

tags: chapter-2, enchanted-heart, imagery, page-15

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#5

“Mr. Rochester, I no more assign this fate to you than I grasp at it for myself. We were born to strive and endure - you as well as I: do so. You will forget me before I forget you.”
― Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

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#6

“Would you believe I devise my entire show based upon a single one of these jewels? It's true I choose a color from my collection (...) and with it I can imagine a whole world.”
― Dita Von Teese, Burlesque and the Art of the Teese / Fetish and the Art of the Teese

tags: a-time-of-national-undress, burlesque, dita-von-teese, jewels, p-38, part-2, swarowski

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#7

“The prosecutor uttered the party line that would distinguish revue from burlesque for the next thirty years. "The difference is movement. On Broadway, unadorned female figures are used to artistic advantage in tableaux. They do not move.”
― Dita Von Teese, Burlesque and the Art of the Teese / Fetish and the Art of the Teese

tags: 1920s, a-time-of-national-undress, burlesque, dita-von-teese, history, p-36, part-2

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#8

“What modern day burlesquer hasn't been influenced by Sally Rand? My own pink ostrich fans -designed by Catherine, naturally- were the largest fans on any stage in the world (even I must up the ante). They are absolutely stunning! Made with four graduated shades of pink and hundreds of rose-colored crystals, they measure seven feet across and weigh 2.3 pounds each.”
― Dita Von Teese, Burlesque and the Art of the Teese / Fetish and the Art of the Teese

tags: burlesque, feather-fans, sally-rand, strippers

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#9

“The new acts' major influences were movies and their curvy queens Brigitte Bardot and Marilyn Monroe. With their big blonde hair, ample breasts, and highly fertile hips, these bombshells inspired women everywhere to exxagerate their own voluptuousness.”
― Dita Von Teese, Burlesque and the Art of the Teese / Fetish and the Art of the Teese

tags: beauty, brigitte-bardot, burlesque, curvy-corset-cuties, marilyn-monroe, p-107, part-5, voluptuousness

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#10

“You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.”
― Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz

tags: body-soul, misattributed-to-c-s-lewis

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#11

“The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

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#12

“Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.”
― Jane Yolen, Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie & Folklore in the Literature of Childhood

tags: childhood, disease, literature

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#13

“They were savages, yet they were ghosts. The two most terrible and dreaded foes of civilised experience seemed combined at once in them.”
― Grant Allen

tags: grant-allen, late-victorian-gothic-tales, pallinghurst-barrow

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#14

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
― Elizabeth Appell

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#15

“And we drove towards the widening dawn, that now streaked half the sky with a wintry bouquet of pink of roses, orange of tiger-lilies, as if my husband had ordered me a sky from a florist. The day broke around me like a cool dream.”
― Angela Carter

tags: dawn, sky-imagery, wintry-bouquet, wintry-sky

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