"I felt freed to please myself, to find……" — Margo Lanagan
"I felt freed to please myself, to find my way as I would, in a world that was much vaster than I had realized before, in which I was but one star-gleam, one wavelet, among multitudes. My happiness mattered not a whit more than the next person's - or the next fish's, or the next grass-blade's! - and not a whit less."
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Margo Lanagan
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9 Quotes by Margo Lanagan
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