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"You may have bought my body, you may even have the papers to prove it, but don't fool yourself into thinking for a moment that my heart and mind were included in the purchase."
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"As only dead leaves allow the wind to blow them to and fro, never allow yourself to be swayed by popular opinion."

"No girl can permanently bolster up a lame-duck visitor, because these day it's every girl for herself."

"Don't wait for someone to bring you flowers. Plant your own garden and decorate your soul."

"Without being an independent individual, without having an independent mind, you become nothing more than a trivial slave or an obscure shadow!"

"I am not your dear; I cannot lie down: send me to school soon, Mrs. Reed, for I hate to live here."

"The only race you are guaranteed to win is the one you run alone."

"What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.... It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude."

"Believe in yourself. Carve your own path. Build your own dreams. Be your own hero."

"Forget it. Never explain, never apologize. You can either write posthumously or you can't."

"Independence is paramount and freedom holds a lot of new possibilities, if all the chances are given at the right time."
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"A story unwritten is without beginning or end. But in its potential lies another story; and in the heartbeat before pen meets page, both stories exist at once, reflecting endless permutations of the other, before one of them disappears forever."

"In my experience, the romance novels written about BDSM have about as much in common with actual BDSM relationships as a child playing with a jump rope."

"Her world fragmented into dozens of sharp, cutting shards, shedding the salty blood and saltier tears that ringed the bitter cocktail of her despair. She was caterpillar and butterfly, both, caught in a cocoon of raw nerves and open sores; she was insanity, wrapped up in the thin, transient wrappings of a temporary lucidity; and she was afraid, because an innate desire lay in the bottom reaches of her psyche for the very poison that was killing her."

"When they figure out how to bottle up orgasms and sell them as a food additive, I'll be first in line."

"Fire and water, logic and reason-those footholds of reality that you mortals hold so near and dear become like so much mist on the plains of the dreamscape."
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