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She was the girl on the fire escape

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It had snowed softly and thickly all through the hours of darkness and the beaufiful whiteness, glittering in the frosty sunshine,ALT

L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea

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Is the true self this which stands on the pavement in January, or that which bends over the balcony in June?ALT

Virginia Woolf, Streethaunting: A London Adventure

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shisasan:

To walk home late at night down the narrow sidewalks is to think of all the old romances  one has read.ALT

January 12, 1925
Journals of Anais Nin 1923-1927
[volume 2]

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Sylvia Plath, in a letter to her mother Aurelia, dated 17 January 1956, from Letters Home: Correspondence 1950-1963

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It is January. We will wait and hope.ALT

Nikolay Punin, The Diaries of Nikolay Punin: 1904-1953

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a lamp in the evening, a warm room, and the moon,ALT

Rainer Maria Rilke, in a letter to Lou Andreas Salomé written c. December 1912, from Rilke and Andreas-Salomé: A Love Story in Letters

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She had a good sleep that night and awakened in the morning to find herself and the world transformed. It had snowed softly and thickly all through the hours of darkness and the beaufiful whiteness, glittering in the frosty sunshine, looked like a mantle of charity cast over all the mistakes and humiliations of the past. “Every morn is a fresh beginning, Every morn is the world made new,” sang Anne, as she dressed.

L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea

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I would like to walk for hours in the snow through the woodsALT

Rainer Maria Rilke, from a letter Lou von Salomé written c. January 1912, from Rilke and Andreas-Salomé: A Love Story in Letters

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Brianna Wiest, from her book titled “The Pivot Year,” originally published in January 2026

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― Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt

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