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ellah (elyse) ☆
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by Donna Tartt
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“Like Christ, I had become intimately acquainted with violence and the sins of the world, but I had not come away unblemished.”
― A Dowry of Blood
― A Dowry of Blood
“I’ve never understood why mamas are expected to be perfect,’ she said. ‘Men are forever thought of as boys. But girls? Once we’re mamas or once we’re ripe, we can never be girls again. Not in their eyes. But we are always girls and daughters, underneath. Always.”
― The Lamb
― The Lamb
“Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter.”
― The Iliad
― The Iliad
“Men are so quick to blame the gods: they say
that we devise their misery. But they
themselves- in their depravity- design
grief greater than the griefs that fate assigns.”
― The Odyssey
that we devise their misery. But they
themselves- in their depravity- design
grief greater than the griefs that fate assigns.”
― The Odyssey
“I think it's better to just read and not study books.”
― Solitaire
― Solitaire
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