"When you wear the mask, the mask becomes you."

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Source : Qiu Xiaolong (2003). “Death of a Red Heroine”, p.66, Soho Press

Qiu Xiaolong

“When I can't sleep I count the buckles on my straightjacket.”

Source : Cathie Linz (2006). “Bad Girls Don't”, p.192, Penguin
“I carry the landscape inside me like an ache. The story of who I am cannot be severed from the story of the flatwoods.”
“Even as a child she had lived her own small life within herself. At a very early period she had apprehended instinctively the dual life - that outward existence which conforms, the inward life which questions.”

Source : Kate Chopin (1899). “The Awakening”, p.35
“I did my undergraduate work at the University of California when it was still affordable. But tuition keeps on rising.”
“I liked the results of the profits in the markets.”
“Racial segregation has come back to public education with a vengeance.”
“A blue-stocking is the scourge of her husband, children, friends, servants, and every one. [Fr., Une femme bel-esprit est le fleau de son mari, de ses enfants, de ses amis, de ses valets, et tout le monde.]”
“I hate going into a room with people in it and the feeling of them staring. I find every moment excruciating.”

Source : "Kate Dickie: 'I've been angst-ridden all my life'". Interview with Jane Graham, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2010.

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