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You’re one of those kinds of women–those kinds of people I should say–as am I.”“And what kind of woman is that?” Mary was very curious and excited now.“ A woman who is not satisfied doing only what society says should satisfy her.Olivia Fuller
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Help me, ” I sobbed. “I beg you, help me.” My eyes burned, butno tears came. I had lost the basic human ability to weep. Human…Iam no longer human. “Destroy me. Take pity and send me on my way.Carol Oates
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Art serves a purpose. It expands our horizons, frees our minds, and opens us up to new experiences. It opens the imagination. All these great discoveries of our time – without the desire to reach beyond our boundaries, we would be forever stagnant. The folly is in closing one’s eyes and not recognizing it.Carol Oates
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Every choice we make affects the other. It always has… We share our choices and our burdens. But that way neither of us has to carry the weight alone– You have never been alone.Olivia Fuller
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The demon blood inside me burned my soul to ashes long ago. I am a monster who once dreamed he was a man. Never mistakeme again.Carol Oates
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The city reeked of death, and the savages that resided within its imposing starkness existed in fear of their lives. They had been shocked by the recent bloody Whitechapel murders, as if starvation, disease, moral degradation, and perpetual smog drowning all color in gray wasn’t enough to bring home the pathetic reality of their miserable existence. The police were no nearer to capturing the monster that lurked in the crevices, and London seemed stiller in the dark, the streets devoid of hope.Carol Oates
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Mary sat on a bench in the park. It was the middle of the night and she was alone and she felt at peace. She leaned back and looked upward. The sky was endless and expansive and the stars stretched on forever. It made her feel very small but it also made her feel very important. Of all of the things that might have ever had the chance to exist in the history of the universe, she had the privilege of being one of them. A living, thinking, feeling being, with the ability to control her own destiny. As wondrous and expansive as stars and the entire universe were, none of them had this power. None of them had any control. And yet she felt humbled to be a part of it at all. It felt like a trade-off. In this life you could only be one or the other: wondrous and expansive or small and in control.Olivia Fuller
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Do you have any idea what it feels like to suddenly realize that the reason you’ve have been so lost your whole life is because a piece of you was missing and you never even knew it–only to find that missing piece and know that you can’t have it and so you will never, ever be whole?Olivia Fuller
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When we lay together, she showed me her soul, and I showed her mine, and they were the same. As you can imagine, mine was battered and bruised, tarnished like ancient metal. She scrubbed it clean. I cannot deny my own soul any more than I can deny she held it in her hands for a time.Carol Oates
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It was the day he learned that smart, witty girls were brighter than sunlight.Olivia Fuller