I KNEW I MUST do all as I was told, yet something burned inside me, a seed of defiance that must have derived from a lon — Alice Hoffman, The Marriage of Opposites
I KNEW I MUST do all as I was told, yet something burned inside me, a seed of defiance that must have derived from a lon — Alice Hoffman, The Marriage of Opposites
I KNEW I MUST do all as I was told, yet something burned inside me, a seed of defiance that must have derived from a lon — Alice Hoffman, The Marriage of Opposites
I KNEW I MUST do all as I was told, yet something burned inside me, a seed of defiance that must have derived from a lon — Alice Hoffman, The Marriage of Opposites
I KNEW I MUST do all as I was told, yet something burned inside me, a seed of defiance that must have derived from a lon — Alice Hoffman, The Marriage of Opposites
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I KNEW I MUST do all as I was told, yet something burned inside me, a seed of defiance that must have derived from a long-ago ancestor. Perhaps my mind was inflamed from the books I had read and the worlds I had imagined.

— Alice Hoffman, The Marriage of Opposites
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