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"An enemy's mouth seldom speaks well."

Reynard the Fox

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Like the bee, she consorts with flowers to concoct her dream of a scented, pollen-yellow honey.

Simonides, On Poetry

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I'm angry because I understand, not because I don't.

Sarah Kane, 4.48 Psychosis

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"I was born With all good stars my enemies."

Ben Jonson, Volpone

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the sun slides up the sky, the newmint morning fine and warming, and sadness in my very bones.

Keri Hulme, Stonefish

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The birds no longer visit in the twilight. But its wood can still spark tinder. It does not care yet to be only the void at its heart.

Han Yü, A Withered Tree

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Let everything be consumed by the fire in the hope that something of value may be left which can be riddled out of the ashes.

Dag Hammarskjöld, Markings

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Don't be afraid, said Gilgamesh. We are together. There is nothing We should fear.

Herbert Mason (trans.), Gilgamesh: A Verse Narrative

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the pull of forgiveness like a hopeless gravity, and always, I try to resist.

Sally Wen Mao, Hurling a Durian

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above, on the gables, an owl ran off with a shadow your sleep incensed the room within rattled the moonlight

Oana Avasilichioaei, Crow Hour

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"Small steps to the madhouse still get us there at last."

Gregory Maguire, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister

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The soup is substantial. You could almost walk on it as if it were water. It is biblical, in fact: a red sea.

Erica Jong, Two More Scenes from the Lives of Vegetables

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"As you drag a man into a plot, so you should also drag the wife, or she will think it a plot against her."

Marlon James, Black Leopard, Red Wolf

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(whether it's milk or cyanide it still hits the tongue sweet)

Nour Abi-Nakhoul, Supplication

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"I asked, it is true, for greater treasures than a little food or rest; I required kindness and sympathy; but I did not believe myself utterly unworthy of it."

Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

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"Listen, I'm not afraid of anything I've done. I'm not afraid of anyone, and especially not you, because all you can do to me is lie, and that doesn't hurt unless I believe you."

Helen Oyeyemi, Victimese

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Hesitate in August. Be shy. Let your toes tremble in their sandals. However, pick the grape and eat with confidence.

Anne Sexton, The Sermon of the Twelve Acknowledgements