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![Alice Munro](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1494056984i/6410._UY200_CR11,0,200,200_.jpg)
“A story is not like a road to follow… it's more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a while, wandering back and forth and settling where you like and discovering how the room and corridors relate to each other, how the world outside is altered by being viewed from these windows. And you, the visitor, the reader, are altered as well by being in this enclosed space, whether it is ample and easy or full of crooked turns, or sparsely or opulently furnished. You can go back again and again, and the house, the story, always contains more than you saw the last time. It also has a sturdy sense of itself of being built out of its own necessity, not just to shelter or beguile you.”
― Selected Stories
― Selected Stories
![Carmen Maria Machado](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1461618720i/6860265._UY200_CR50,0,200,200_.jpg)
“I took a step toward her." It is my right to reside in my own mind.It is my right,"I said." It is my right to be unsociable and it is my right to be unpleasant to be around. Do you ever listen to yourself? This is crazy, that is crazy, everything is crazy to you. By whose measure? Well, it is my right to be crazy, as you love to say so much. I have no shame. I have felt many things in my life, but shame is not among them. "The volume of my voice caused me to stand on my tiptoes. I could not remember yelling like this, ever." You may think that I have an obligation to you but I assure you that us being thrown together in this arbitrary arrangement does not cohesion make. I have never had less of an obligation to anyone in my life, you aggressively ordinary woman.”
― Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
― Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
![Sylvia Plath](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1613135175i/4379._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.”
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![Thomas Hardy](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1429946281i/15905._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Did you say the stars were worlds, Tess?"
"Yes."
"All like ours?"
"I don't know, but I think so. They sometimes seem to be like the apples on our stubbard-tree. Most of them splendid and sound - a few blighted."
"Which do we live on - a splendid one or a blighted one?"
"A blighted one.”
― Tess of the D’Urbervilles
"Yes."
"All like ours?"
"I don't know, but I think so. They sometimes seem to be like the apples on our stubbard-tree. Most of them splendid and sound - a few blighted."
"Which do we live on - a splendid one or a blighted one?"
"A blighted one.”
― Tess of the D’Urbervilles
![Dante Alighieri](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1651440425i/5031312._UX200_CR0,51,200,200_.jpg)
“He who best discerns the worth of time is most distressed whenever time is lost.”
― The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, Volume 2: Purgatorio
― The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, Volume 2: Purgatorio
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