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![この靴しりませんか? [Kono Kutsu Shirimasen ka?] by Fuka Mizutani](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1357027313l/17200983._SX50_.jpg "この靴しりませんか? [Kono Kutsu Shirimasen ka?] by Fuka Mizutani")
“The world will try to make you small. It will tell you to be modest, and meek. But the world is wrong. You should get to feel and love and live as boldly as you want.”
― Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
― Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
“From that moment on she insisted she would only read romance, as if love and horror could not go hand-in-hand”
― Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
― Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
“And as she did, she told her daughter what it meant to be a wife. Gentle. Loving. Obedient. Words that made María tense. And, as if her mother could feel her stiffening, she leaned close and said, “You will learn, it is better to bend than to break.” María stared into the hearth. “Why should I be the one who bends?”
― Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
― Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
“And here is the awful thing about belief. It is a current, like compulsion. Hard to forge when it goes against your will, but easy enough when it carries you the way you want to go.”
― Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
― Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
“Never walk alone at night, they tell you, if you're a girl.
And it isn't fair.
Because the night is when the world is quiet.
The night is when the air is clear. The night is wild and welcoming and Alice lets her head fall back, until all she sees is the sky, not black, as it should be, given the time, but a twisting tapestry of blue.”
― Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
And it isn't fair.
Because the night is when the world is quiet.
The night is when the air is clear. The night is wild and welcoming and Alice lets her head fall back, until all she sees is the sky, not black, as it should be, given the time, but a twisting tapestry of blue.”
― Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
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