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#1

“But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

tags: circe, constellations, daedalus, greek-mythology, love, stars

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#2

“Humbling women seems to me a chief pastime of poets. As if there can be no story unless we crawl and weep.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

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#3

“I thought: I cannot bear this world a moment longer. Then, child, make another.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

1424 likes

#4

“[She] 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

tags: life, normal-people

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#5

“Life is exactly the same. Life is the thing you bring with you inside your own head.”
― Sally Rooney

tags: life, normal-people, sally-rooney

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#6

“The future is uncertain, but that can be a good thing.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

tags: all-the-bright-places, future, hope, look-for-the-positive, smile

317 likes

#7

“For me, becoming isn’t about arriving somewhere or achieving a certain aim. I see it instead as forward motion, a means of evolving, a way to reach continuously toward a better self. The journey doesn’t end.”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming

tags: becoming, end, evolving, journey

673 likes

#8

“Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.”
― Anne Frank

tags: candle, darkness, illumination, misattributed

1830 likes

#9

“He stood a few meters from the step and spoke with great conviction, great joy.
"Alles ist Scheisse," he announced.
All is shit.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

tags: rudy-steiner, the-book-thief

164 likes

#10

“Oh, come on, Arthur."
"I don't want to hear it, Andy."
"Jesus Christ"
"He doesn't want to hear it, either.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

tags: the-book-thief

77 likes

#11

“Books, she has found, are a way to live a thousand lives--or to find strength in a very long one.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

3332 likes

#12

“Stories are a way to preserve one's self. To be remembered. And to forget.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

624 likes

#13

“We were like gods at the dawning of the world, & our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

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#14

“Those seconds, half seconds, that the line of our gaze connected, were the only moment in my day that I felt anything at all.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

tags: achilles, gaze-connected, patrochilles, patroclus

170 likes

#15

“I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

10076 likes

#16

“His dad had told him many times that the definition of a real man is one who cries without shame, reads poetry with his heart, feels opera in his soul, and does what’s necessary to defend a woman.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

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#17

“Unworthy boys make a lot of noise”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

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#18

“Some people they grow wiser as they grow older. Unfortunately, most people just grow older.”
― Colleen Hoover, Ugly Love

tags: ugly-love

691 likes

#19

“You deserve so much more than what you're allowing yourself to have.”
― Colleen Hoover, Ugly Love

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#20

“I can draw a seedling with two tiny branches. Yours and mine. We’ll be on our own brand-new, tiny family tree—one that starts with us.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us

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#21

“The world was her manuscript. No surface was safe.”
― Colleen Hoover, Verity

tags: verity, writing, writing-life

133 likes

#22

“It is my wish for you to be my fish”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us

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