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“There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.”
― Mark Twain

“Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.”
― Edgar Allen Poe

“No two persons ever read the same book.”
― Edmund Wilson

“It was in my flaws, I found a much deeper truth and it is from them, I bloom ..a black rose.”
― Segovia Amil

“Phantom
Your heart must be a ghost.
I can feel it mounting; a dark wave -
upon the night of my soul”
― Segovia Amil, Ophelia Wears Black

“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
― Voltaire

“Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
― Charles W. Eliot

“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”
― William Styron, Conversations with William Styron

“My heart is a cathedral. Widows, ghosts and lovers sit and sing in the dark, arched marrow of me.”
― Segovia Amil

“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

“Unbeing dead isn't being alive.”
― E. E. Cummings

“I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“When you spend so long trapped in darkness, Lucien, you find that the darkness begins to stare back.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee
And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.”
― Robert Frost

“Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light;
I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
― Sarah Williams, Twilight Hours: A Legacy of Verse

“You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Every lover of books has authors whom he reads over and over again, whom he cares for as persons and not as sources of information, who are more to him, possibly, than any person he sees. He continually returns to the cherished companion and feeds eagerly upon his thought. It is because there is something in the book which he needs, which awakens and directs trains of thought that lead him where he likes to be led.”
― Charles Horton Cooley, Human Nature and the Social Order

“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
― Flannery O'Connor

“Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it”
― Flannery O' Connor, Wise Blood

“I love humanity but I hate humans. —Albert Einstein”
― S.T. Abby, The Risk

“Shakespeare was one of the few philosophers who believed in revenge. Then again, he was a romantic. Romantics always believe in revenge, because romantics love harder, suffer loss more painfully, and hold onto a grudge that has shattered their hearts. Their hearts are of the greatest importance, above all else - body, soul, or mind.”
― S.T. Abby

“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling, his arms trembling but still trying to hold the world aloft with the last of his strength, and the greater his effort the heavier the world bore down upon his shoulders - What would you tell him?"

I…don't know. What…could he do? What would you tell him?"

To shrug.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald