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“A good leg will fall. A straight back will stoop. A black beard will turn white. A curled pate will grow bald." He held out a small triangle of fruit toward Emilia. "But a good heart, my dear... well, a good heart is the sun and the moon.”
― By Any Other Name
― By Any Other Name
“You are good," Bufort said, "but you could be great. It's not enough to manipulate your audience's feelings. You must make them believe that there's a reason you are the one telling this story. You have to let a bit of yourself bleed into your work."
And therein lay the problem: you couldn't bleed without feeling the sting of the cut.”
― By Any Other Name
And therein lay the problem: you couldn't bleed without feeling the sting of the cut.”
― By Any Other Name
“Get out," Emilia growled, in a voice she had never heard come from her throat. "I am more than this. It does not matter what you see when you look at me, because you will never know me the way I know myself. And even if I am the only person in the world with that knowledge, it does not make it any less real.”
― By Any Other Name
― By Any Other Name
“If they're going to call you a bitch no matter what, you might as well earn the title.”
― By Any Other Name
― By Any Other Name
“The real thing that got me thinking were his female characters. Beatrice... Rosalind... Viola... Portia. They were feminists long before there was ever a woman's movement. But Shakespeare, in real life, had two daughters that he never educated. They didn't even know how to write their own names." Melina shook her head. "I just can't believe a man who created such iconic women in his plays wouldn't want his daughters to have the same rights.”
― By Any Other Name
― By Any Other Name
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Vera’s 2025 Year in Books
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