“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
“It is not violence that best overcomes hate -- nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
“...the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword."
"...a ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is.”
― A Game of Thrones
"...a ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is.”
― A Game of Thrones
“I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.”
― Selected Letters
― Selected Letters
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