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“They were a sorry-looking bunch. Their clothes were in tatters. Their flesh was ripped. They were filthy beyond filth. For once, they looked like…

— Maggie LaCroix

“They were trying to save their souls- and who but a fool could fail to see that all that was the matter with their…

— Upton Sinclair

“They agreed passionately out of the depths of their tormented lives.”

— William Golding

“They saw their bodies as so pure that they were not ashamed, no matter who might see them, and they regarded their bodies as…

— Jim C. Cunningham

“He caressed them, did them violence even, and shed tears of despair over his failures to make them either sufficiently beautiful or sufficiently alive. (42)”

— Émile Zola

“she delighted in being of the same substance as them, and in knowing that when she died her flesh would nourish other lives as…

— Phillip Pullman

“They died comfortably in their little bed of understanding, to become useful citizens of the world. I pitied them, and in short order I…

— Henry Miller

“They wore their anguish like armour, their anger slung across their bodies like ammunition belts. At that moment, perhaps because they were this armed,…

— Arundhati Roy

“They mutilate they torment each other with silences with words as if they had another life to live they do so as if they…

— Tadeusz Rózewicz

“For they were unseasoned, nor inured, not knowing this to be much less than the beginning of sorrow.”

— David Jones

“The pain broke through the skin, dismantled her pores, and ate away at everything that was once strong. She was laid bare with nothing…

— J. Autherine

“Surely it is the sight of your enemy slain, the humiliation of his tribe and the lamentation of his women.”

— Terry Pratchett