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Because misfortune does not wait idly by until we are prepared for it.

Being strong does not disqualify you from being beautiful.

Compelling fiction often obscures the humble truth.

Imagine what ideas are locked up in the hearts and minds of women who simply lack the tools to express them.

I no longer believe that people are born without virtue. It gets beaten out. Misfortune threshes our souls as a flail threshes wheat, and the lightest parts of ourselves are scattered to the wind.

I was a candle that had never known a flame, and now that the flame was lit, I softened and glowed in a way I had not known was possible.

I was a mouse trapped in a corner, looking for a crack to flee through but despairing of finding one.

I wonder sometimes if the thoughts that flock my nightmares are abandoned memories coming home to roost.

Our fascination with feminine beauty is elemental. It is said that men wish to possess the princess and women wish to be the princess, but I believe that is only part of the truth. We are drawn to extraordinary beauty mindlessly and purposelessly; we flutter on dusty moth wings toward the effulgence with no understanding of why we do it. Perhaps when we see a woman with the aspect of an angel, our souls are tricked into following her, mistaking her for a guide to paradise. The opposite, of course, is also true.

Rich only matters if he marries you," I said grimly. "Handsome matters not at all.

The stories we tell ourselves have great power.

You speak of love? Love is a sickness that causes men and women to do stupid things, the sorts of things that leave them sad and broken when the fever passes.