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She thought about what they all went through each day: the great, gruelling trial of being a woman in a world governed by men. How painful it was, and how humiliating. To be forced to hold your dead friend aloft because it was thought that
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“Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.”
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“The entire point of life is to find ways to get others to do your work for you. Don’t you know anything about basic economics?”
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“You think human nature is a beast, that it must be put in a cage. But it's the cage that makes the animal bad.”
― Rock 'n' Roll
― Rock 'n' Roll
“I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”
― The Song of Achilles
― The Song of Achilles
“The frightened walk away when love is difficult. I know that now. You have to be willing to give everything away. You have to be willing to end up with nothing. Only then will your heart be whole.”
― Green Heart
― Green Heart
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