Shannon
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Vengeance incarnate. Wrath’s bruised heart. She would bow for no one.


“I spoke to the lilies of the valley. "Good morning," I said.”
― Jailbird
― Jailbird

“Sarah Wyatt believed that sex was a sort of pratfall that was easily avoided. To avoid it, she had only to remind a would-be lover of the ridiculousness of what he proposed to do to her.”
― Jailbird
― Jailbird

“Might wisdom be as impossible in this particular universe as a perpetual-motion machine?”
― Jailbird
― Jailbird

“It may be that Ruth protected herself from dread of the gathering storm, or, more accurately, from dread of the gathering silence, by reverting during the daytime, when I was at work, to the Ophelia-like elation she had felt after her liberation-when she had thought of herself as a bird all alone with God.”
― Jailbird
― Jailbird

“Her spirits were always at high-water mark, her tongue always going—singing, laughing, and plaguing everybody who would not do the same.”
― Wuthering Heights
― Wuthering Heights
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