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I am near fourteen and have never yet seen a hanging. My life is barren.
It's important to know what you think, my dear, or else you will be so hemmed in by other people's ideas and opinions, you won't have room for your own.
I feel safer when you're here. You're so big and sturdy, like a beautiful tree I can lean on and not knock over.
. . . I cannot escape my life but can only use my determination and courage to make it the best I can.
Non che non creda in Dio. Ci credo. Solo non sono sicura di credere nel Paradiso, almeno non quanto credo nella biblioteca pubblica.
Minds, like diapers, need occasional changing.
Corpus bones, I thought. To be wedded to this perfumed prig with his mouth in a knot and a frown always on his face!
I am commanded to write an account of my days: I am bit by fleas and plagued by family. That is all there is to say.
I know what I want. A full belly, a contented heart, and a place in this world.
. . she dreamed of nothing, for she hoped for nothing and expected nothing. It was as cold and dark inside her as out in the frosty night.
My mother makes the best cider in Lincolnshire. She swears it is because she always includes a number of rotten apples in the mix. I was wondering if this could be true of people - if the world needs...
Fathers should make you feel safe.
Corpus Bones! I utterly loathe my life.
Just because you don't know everything don't mean you know nothing.
19TH DAY OF OCTOBER, Feast of Saint Frideswide, virgin, though why that should make someone a saint I do not know
My pains are but trifling things compared to my joy.
More lady-lessons. It is impossible to do all and be all a lady must be and not tie oneself in a knot. A lady must walk erect with dignity, looking straight before her with eyelids low, gazing at the...
I cannot be a monk, nor a crusader, nor a tumbler. I must stay here and hem sheets until I die. My humors are greatly out of balance. I prescribe for myself wormwood and spiced wine and some of the cu...
Just as a river by night shines with the reflected light of the moon, so too do you shine with the light of your family, your people, and your God. So you are never far from home, never alone, whereve...
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