Like a wild animal, the truth is too powerful to remain caged.
—Veronica Roth, Insurgent
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I simply didn’t know how to make things better. I could not solve the puzzle of me.
—Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
There is a spectacle greater than the sea, and that is the sky; there is a spectacle greater than the sky, and that is the human soul.
—Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
Perhaps we were friends first and lovers second. But then perhaps this is what lovers are.
—André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name
Crazy isn’t being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It’s you or me amplified. If you ever told a lie and enjoyed it. If you ever wished you could be a child forever.
—Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted
A pretty sight, a lady with a book.
—Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle
He licked his lips. “Well, if you want my opinion—”
“I don’t,” she said. “I have my own.”
—Toni Morrison, Beloved
Desire was its own reward, and a rarer luxury than you’d think. You could sometimes buy what you wanted; you could never buy wanting it.
—Lionel Shriver, The Post-Birthday World
Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
—George Orwell, 1984
Old stories are like old friends, she used to say. You have to visit them from time to time.
― George R. R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
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