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“Then I feel, Harry, that I have given away my whole soul to someone who treats it as if it were a flower to put in his coat, a bit of decoration to charm his vanity, an ornament for a summer's day.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“I'm not a religious person but I do sometimes think God made you for me.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“I was tired, it was late, I was sitting half-asleep in the back of a taxi, remembering strangely that wherever I go, you are with me, and so is he, and that as long as you both live the world will be beautiful to me.”
― Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You

“If God wanted me to give you up, he wouldn't have made me who I am.”
― Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You

“She tries to be a good person. But deep down she knows she is a bad person, corrupted, wrong, and all her efforts to be right, to have the right opinions, to say the right things, these efforts only disguise what is buried inside her, the evil part of herself.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“His appearance is like a favorite piece of music to her, sounding a little different each time she hears it.”
― Sally Rooney

“He was like a freezer item that had thawed too quickly on the outside and was melting everywhere, while the inside was still frozen solid.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“Whether she was respected or despised, it didn't make much difference in the end. Would every stage of her life continue to reveal itself as the same thing, again and again, the same remorseless contest for dominance?”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“I don't know why I can't make people love me. I think there was something wrong with me when I was born.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“She looked like a piece of religious art. It was so much more painful to look at her than anyone had warned him it would be, and he wanted to do something terrible, like set himself on fire or drive his car into a tree.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“She felt happy to be surrounded by people she liked, who liked her. She knew if she wanted to speak, everyone would probably turn and listen out of sincere interest, and that made her happy too, although she had nothing at all to say.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“He touches his lips to her skin and she feels holy, like a shrine.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“Marianne wonders what it would be like to belong here, to walk down the street greeting people and smiling. To feel that life was happening here, in this place, and not somewhere else far away.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“Most people go through their whole lives, Marianne thought, without ever really feeling that close with anyone.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“I would never pretend not to know you, Connell.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“She felt she would do anything to make him like her, to make him say out loud that he liked her.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“I look at Peeta and he gives me a sad smile. I hear Haymitch's voice. "You could do a lot worse." At this moment, it's impossible to imagine how I could do any better. The gift...it is perfect. So when I rise up on my tiptoe to kiss him, it doesn't seem forced at all.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

“But I feel as if I did know Rue, and she'll always be with me. Everything beautiful brings her to mind. I see her in the yellow flowers that grow in the Meadow by my house. I see her in the Mockingjays that sing in the trees. But most of all, I see her in my sister, Prim.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

“I’m the one who suggests the public marriage proposal. Peeta agrees to do it but then disappears to his room for a long time. Haymitch tells me to leave him alone. “I thought he wanted it, anyway,” I say. “Not like this,” Haymitch says. “He wanted it to be real.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

“You could live a hundred lifetimes and not deserve him, you know,” Haymitch says.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

“Because I can't handle the nightmares. Not without you.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

“Having an eye for beauty isn't the same thing as a weakness...except possibly when it comes to you.”
― Suzanne Collins

“It feels like such a luxury, sleeping with Peeta again. I didn't realize how starved id been for human closeness. For the feel of him beside me in the darkness.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

“I don't want you forgetting how different our circumstaces are. If you die, and I live, there's no life for me at all back in District Twelve. You're my whole life." Peeta says. "I would never be happy again. It's different for you. I'm not saying it wouldn't be hard. But there are other people who'd make your life worth living."

"No one really needs me," he says, and there's no selfpity in his voice. It's true his family doesn't need him. They will mourn him, as will a handfull of friends. But they will get on.... I realise only one person will be damaged beyond repair if Peeta dies. Me.

"I do," I say. "I need you.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

“We felt the imprisonment of being a girl, the way it made your mind active and dreamy, and how you ended up knowing which colors went together. We knew that the girls were our twins, that we all existed in a space like animals with identical skins, and that they knew everything about us through we couldn't fathom them at all. We knew, finally, that the girls were really women in disguise, that they understood love and even death, and that our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

“a creature who in dog years was still a puppy-Cecilia Libson.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

“All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses,
And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.”
― walt whitman

“At that moment Mr. Lisbon had the feeling that he didn't know who she was, that children were only strangers you agreed to live with, and he reached out in order to meet her for the first time.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

“We just want to live. If anyone would let us.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

“We knew that Cecilia had killed herself because she was a misfit, because the beyond called to her, and we knew that her sisters, once abandoned, felt her calling from that place, too. ”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides