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“Now you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names.”
― Coraline
― Coraline
“I feel like the word shatter.”
― The Handmaid’s Tale
― The Handmaid’s Tale
“I'm a child in that respect: able to live, physically speaking, on a crumb of anticipation for weeks at a time, but always in danger of crushing the waited-for event with the freight of my excessive hope.”
― What Was She Thinking? [Notes on a Scandal]
― What Was She Thinking? [Notes on a Scandal]
“For a moment she felt utterly dislocated. She did not know where she was; she was not entirely sure who she was. It is astonishing just how much of what we are can be tied to the bed we wake up in in the morning and it is astonishing how fragile that can be.”
― Coraline
― Coraline
“These reflections have dispelled the agitation with which I began my letter and I feel my heart glow with an enthusiasm whcih elevates me to heaven, for nothing contributes so much to tranqualize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.”
― Frankenstein
― Frankenstein
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