Flora
Flora is a mid-19th century juvenile fiction novel that follows Flora and her cousin Ada Murray as they navigate the contrasts between rural and urban life. The story explores themes of societal expectations, self-deception, and the quest for validation, as Flora grapples with her love for her simple country existence while yearning for the excitement of city life. Through their conversations, the narrative delves into Flora's modest social circle and her family's charitable efforts, ultimately leading to her internal struggles and moral challenges as she interacts with Ada's cosmopolitan world.
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“You're never ready for what you have to do. You just do it. That makes you ready.””
— Unknown
“Isolated, she managed somehow to feel free”
— Unknown
“There is no past. Past is present when you carry it with you.””
— Unknown
“I want somebody to love, and I want somebody to love me. And nobody ever will. And that's why it hurts. Because it makes a difference. And when nobody cares, it makes you all mad inside and it makes you want to say things, tear up things, break things, get through the glass.””
— Unknown
“I’m not fit to occupy space. Excuse me for living.””
— Unknown
“Theirs was the eternal youth of an alternating self, a youth with the constant although unfulfilled promise of growing up””
— Unknown
“I have to force myself even to move my eyeballs. It's so easy just to stare.””
— Unknown
“The neurologist had dismissed her case after a single visit, handing out an easy nostrum by telling her father that if she continued to write poetry, she would be all right.””
— Unknown
“I realized how trapped I was by all the talk of the end of the world.””
— Unknown
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