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Silhouette with Book. Model: Cassandra
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Silhouette with Book. Model: Cassandra
"You don't get to choose your demons. They choose you."
John Irving, in an interview with NPR's Lynn Neary
"She had wandered, without rule or guidance, in a moral wilderness, as vast, as intricate, and shadowy as the untamed forest… The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers—stern and wild ones—and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss."
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
"Why do we make ourselves so fierce that we scare hearts away once we have invited them in?" Detail of a mural by Rachel Slotnick (Chicago, 2015)
"I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again."
F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
Apart from the average voter: Going Postal, by Terry Pratchett.
"I hunger to commit the act of touch."
Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
"She was quiet and shy until you saw firelight reflected in her eyes, and sometimes the flames were there in the absence of any fire to reflect."
Terry Pratchett, from Monstrous Regiment