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Dark and Deepest Red
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"Dark and Deepest Red" Quotes

A tale of enchantment and love that weaves together the lives of two young women in two different centuries.

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The red shoes were guilty of nothing, but they were the ones left to speak for the bodies that had been silenced.

Anna-Marie McLemore

injusticesilence

The world out there was not waiting to be kind. It never had been.

Anna-Marie McLemore

realityharshness

They looked at her like she was a painting that had been vandalized.

Anna-Marie McLemore

judgmentappearance

They had not forgotten the shoe's redness, but they had forgotten what it had cost them.

Anna-Marie McLemore

forgivenessmemory

Forgetting was a difficult thing to do when the past kept calling you back.

Anna-Marie McLemore

memorypast

Sometimes the only way to live in a world that didn't always want you was to claim your own space.

Anna-Marie McLemore

empowermentidentity

The heart was a powerful thing. It wanted who it wanted.

Anna-Marie McLemore

lovedesire

Love was not a thing that could be measured or rationed. It was not a thing that could be tamed.

Anna-Marie McLemore

loveunpredictability

She was proof that the world was not always so black and white.

Anna-Marie McLemore

diversityacceptance

Sometimes love was a quiet thing, like the moonlight that snuck through the window.

Anna-Marie McLemore

lovegentleness