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A Marsh Island (Q19: The Queer American Nineteenth Century)

by Sarah Orne Jewett

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“I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.”
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“A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.”
― Maurice Sendak

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“I didn’t know quite what fornicating was, but I had read about it in Deuteronomy, and I knew it was a sin. But why was it so noisy? Most sins you did quietly so as not to get caught.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

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