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#1

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor

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#2

“Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

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#3

“And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

tags: jordan-baker

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#4

“I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

tags: inspirational, women

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#5

“I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: character, empowerment, flaws, freedom, gender, ideal-woman, identity, image, independence, integrity, love, men, realism, romance, self-awareness, self-determination, women

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#6

“Flirting is a woman’s trade, one must keep in practice.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: becoming-jane, flirting, sex

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#7

“There were always excuses for why girls died”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House

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#8

“It was so much easier to believe that you always had my best interest at heart.”
― S.T. Gibson, A Dowry of Blood

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#9

“More often than not, love ends in tragedy, but we go on loving in the hopes that this time, it will be different.”
― S.T. Gibson, A Dowry of Blood

tags: a-dowry-of-blood, love, s-t-gibson, tragedy

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#10

“If she did ask, I would say it was grief. The deepest grief. I know she would accept that as an answer. No one knows what’s inside grief. Anything at all can be there.”
― Mona Awad, Rouge

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#11

“But let it be my ambition and not my fear that seals my fate.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

tags: historical-fantasy, romance

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#12

“Humans mourn time, because it’s the only currency that really matters in a life so short.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King

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#13

“Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

tags: dystopia

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#14

“But forgetting's not something you do, it happens to you.”
― John Fowles, The Collector

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#15

“Niceness is a decision, a strategy of social interaction; it is not a character trait.”
― Gavin de Becker, The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence

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#16

“Sometimes, immersed in his books, there would come to him the awareness of all that he did not know, of all that he had not read; and the serenity for which he labored was shattered as he realized the little time he had in life to read so much, to learn what he had to know.”
― John Williams, Stoner

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#17

“But what they don’t know is this: As long as you are alive, it is never too late to be found.”
― Coco Mellors, Blue Sisters

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