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  1. Libba Bray _ A Great and Terrible Beauty

    I don't want to have this conversation. It's sunny out. There's bacon downstairs. My life is starting over today. I've just made it official.
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  2. Libba Bray _ A Great and Terrible Beauty

    Every leader has blood on her hands.
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  3. Libba Bray _ A Great and Terrible Beauty

    Let's be brave girls, shall we?
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  4. Libba Bray _ A Great and Terrible Beauty

    But forgiveness … I'll hold on to that fragile slice of hope and keep it close, remembering that in each of us lie good and bad, light and dark, art and pain, choice and regret, cruelty and sacrifice. We're each of us our own chiaroscuro, our own bit of illusion fighting to emerge into something solid, something real. We've got to forgive ourselves that. I must remember to forgive myself. Because there's an awful lot of gray to work with. No one can live in the light all the time.
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  5. Libba Bray _ A Great and Terrible Beauty

    What is the French word for rain? Le rain? La rain? Is the rain masculine or feminine? It's such a bother that it must be masculine.
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  6. Libba Bray _ A Great and Terrible Beauty

    Kartik feels like a country I want to travel-vast, dangerous, and unknown.
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  7. Libba Bray _ A Great and Terrible Beauty

    They would have been mystics and healers, women who worked with herbs and delivered babies. But it would have made them suspect. Women who have power are always feared," she says sadly.
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  8. Libba Bray _ A Great and Terrible Beauty

    But we can't live in the light all of the time. You have to take whatever light you can hold into the dark with you." I
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  9. Libba Bray _ A Great and Terrible Beauty

    But it would have made them suspect. Women who have power are always feared,
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  10. Libba Bray _ A Great and Terrible Beauty

    ...I am beginning to understand why those ancient women had to hide in caves. Why our parents and teachers and suitors want us to behave properly and predictably. It's not that they want to protect us; it's that they fear us.
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  11. Libba Bray _ A Great and Terrible Beauty

    I know because I read.
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  12. Libba Bray _ A Great and Terrible Beauty

    You can never really know someone completely. That's why it's the most terrifying thing in the world, really - taking someone on faith, hoping they'll take you on faith too. It's such a precious balance, it's a wonder we do it at all.
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