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Sense and Sensibility

by Jane Austen

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Richard III

by William Shakespeare

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Titus Groan (Gormenghast, #1)

by Mervyn Peake

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“Even in the most terrible chapters of my life I have always known a certain, savage beauty— in the color of the sky, the sense of birds flying close to my ear, the feel of the soft-loam earth and the joy of running through the untended woods until I became more animal than spirit.”
― Claire Oshetsky, Poor Deer

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“When men fall into the sea, they drown. When women meet the water, they transform. It becomes vital to ask: is this a metamorphosis, or a homecoming?”
― Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning

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“You can’t taste a memory without tainting it with who you have become.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Tress of the Emerald Sea

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“Above all, there was understanding. She felt as if a mist had been lifted from her eyes, enabling her to look upon and comprehend the significance of life, that monster made up of beauty and brutality.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening " and Selected Stories: Microsoft Reader Level 5

tags: emotion, introspection, life

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“It was an eternal feeling, this sense of being unwelcome. No matter where she was, Effy was always afraid she was not wanted.”
― Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning

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