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The Fawn

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The Bonfire of the Vanities

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E’s Quotes

“would you reach in the drawer there and give me my purse. A girl doesn't read this sort of thing without her lipstick.”
― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's: A Short Novel and Three Stories

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“Last year I abstained
this year I devour

without guilt
which is also an art”
― Margaret Atwood, You are Happy

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“Peach pits are poisonous. This is not a mistake. Girlhood is growing fruit around cyanide. It will never be your for swallowing.”
― Brenna Twohy, Swallowtail

tags: girlhood, peach

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“Un grand chagrin tue tout le reste”
― Jeanne Julie Éléonore de Lespinasse, Lettres de mademoiselle de Lespinasse: Avec une notice biographique par Jules Janin

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“I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself”
― Simone de Beauvoir

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