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The Secret of Moonacre
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french bindings at a store in marblehead.
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Ballads of Brave Women Records of the Heroic in though action and endurance Alfred H Miles and other writers London Stanley Paul & Co. no date c1909
Oh God. I need this book but I bet it's super expensive.😮
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"I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free... Why am I so changed? I'm sure I should be myself were I once among the heather on those hills."
- Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
“For far too long we have been seduced into walking a path that did not lead us to ourselves. For far too long we have said 'yes' when we wanted to say 'no'.
And for far too long we have said 'no' when we desperately wanted to say 'yes'. When we don’t listen to our intuition, we abandon our souls. And we abandon our souls because we are afraid if we don’t, others will abandon us.”
– Terry Tempest Williams from When Women Were Birds
"I stole her heart away and put ice in its place."
- Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
Persephone was the mistress of the Furies--underworld daimones who punished the crimes of filial betrayal, impiety and murder. She despatched them when curses were invoked in her name.
- Homer, Iliad
"The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you."
- Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
"I'm not going to fear any man of flesh and blood, no matter what costume he wears."
- Moll Flanders
"Many of the greatest books are like a forest. “The best way to get to know them is to wander right into the middle and get lost."
- Anthony Esolen