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Quote by Anna McPartlin

“She was drawn to damaged souls like a moth to a flame.”

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Anna McPartlin is a celebrated novelist recognized for her engaging storytelling and compelling characters. Born in 1972, she has made a significant impact in the literary world with her unique voice and narrative style. more

“So it follows that those who have reason have freedom to will or not to will, although this freedom is not equal in all of them. [...] human souls are more free when they persevere in the contemplation of the mind of God, less free when they descend to the corporeal, and even less free when they are entirely imprisoned in earthly flesh and blood.”

Mind Humans Soul Reason Blood Equal Flesh Contemplation Human Soul Persevere Flesh And Blood

Book:The Consolation of Philosophy

Source: The Consolation of Philosophy

“For I cannot think that GOD Almighty ever made them [women] so delicate, so glorious creatures; and furnished them with such charms, so agreeable and so delightful to mankind; with souls capable of the same accomplishments with men: and all, to be only Stewards of our Houses, Cooks, and Slaves.”

Thinking Men Made Soul House Mankind Creatures Capable Slave Cooks Accomplishment Glorious Charm Delicate Almighty Delightful Stewards

Book:DANIEL DEFOE Ultimate Collection: 50+ Adventure Classics, Pirate Tales & Historical Novels - Including Biographies, Historical Works, Travel Sketches, Poems & Essays (Illustrated): Robinson Crusoe, The History of the Pirates, Captain Singleton, Memoirs of a Cavalier, A Journal of the Plague Year, Moll Flanders, Roxana, The History of the Devil, The King of Pirates and many more

Source: DANIEL DEFOE Ultimate Collection: 50+ Adventure Classics, Pirate Tales & Historical Novels - Including Biographies, Historical Works, Travel Sketches, Poems & Essays (Illustrated): Robinson Crusoe, The History of the Pirates, Captain Singleton, Memoirs of a Cavalier, A Journal of the Plague Year, Moll Flanders, Roxana, The History of the Devil, The King of Pirates and many more

“Two people see each across a room or their skin brushes. Their souls recognize the person as their own. It doesn't need time to figure it. The soul always knows... whether it's right or wrong.”

People Knows Needs Persons Two Soul Rooms Figures Skins Brushes Time Of Need

Author:J. Lynn

“Something ... made him feel small, not in the way of orphans or beggars or children, but in a good way. In the way of souls.”

Way Feels Children Made Soul Beggar Good Way Orphan

Book:The Thousandfold Thought: The Prince of Nothing, Book Three (The Prince of Nothing)

Source: The Thousandfold Thought: The Prince of Nothing, Book Three (The Prince of Nothing)

“Those partial to drink were hiding faults and dishonesty. They were sloppy souls, even the ones with pleasant manners and fine noses.”

Soul Fine Drink Faults Manners Noses Pleasant Hiding Dishonesty Sloppy

Book:The Electric Michelangelo

Source: The Electric Michelangelo

“As we have said, robust souls are sometimes almost, but not entirely, overthrown by strokes of misfortune....Despair has steps leading upward. From total depression we rise to despondency, from despondency to affliction, from affliction to melancholy. Melancholy is a twilight state in which suffering transmutes into a somber joy....Melancholy is the enjoyment of being sad.”