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#1

“He brought her goodness like a gift and now it belongs to her.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

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#2

“The sky's always falling. Always. You'll see. People have no idea.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

tags: meteorites, sky, stars

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#3

“I love you,” I say to him, only it comes out, “Hey.”
“So damn much,” he says back, only it comes out, “Dude.”
He still won’t meet my eyes.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

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#4

“I wanted to change my fate, to force it down another road. I wanted to stand in the river of time and make it flow a different direction, if just for a little while.”
― April Genevieve Tucholke, The Boneless Mercies

tags: ambition, fate, river, time

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#5

“They called us the Mercies, or sometimes the Boneless Mercies. They said we were shadows, ghosts, and if you touched our skin, we dissolved into smoke.”
― April Genevieve Tucholke, The Boneless Mercies

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#6

“Pain is a part of life. Pain is a sign of life. The dead feel nothing.”
― April Genevieve Tucholke, The Boneless Mercies

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#7

“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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#8

“At times he has the sensation that he and Marianne are like figure skaters, improvising their discussions so adeptly and in such perfect synchronisation that it surprises them both. She tosses herself gracefully into the air, and each time, without knowing how he's going to do it, he catches her.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

tags: attraction, conversations, friendship, irish-fiction, irish-writer, love, normal-people, sally-rooney

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#9

“It feels intellectually unserious to concern himself with fictional people marrying one another. But there it is: literature moves him.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

tags: normal-people

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#10

“I wanted so badly for there to be more. I ached for there to be more than my crappy little life.' He shakes his head. 'And there was more. I just couldn't see it.”
― Patrick Ness, More Than This

tags: beauty, life, more-than-this, ness, patrick-ness, suicide

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#11

“War makes monsters out of men.”
― Patrick Ness

tags: ben, chaos-walking, patrick-ness, the-knife-of-never-letting-go

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#12

“Whatever the world looks like now. That's not always how it's going to look. There's more. There's always more.”
― Patrick Ness, More Than This

tags: more-than-this

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#13

“Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

tags: francis-abernathy, the-secret-history

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#14

“You know, you scare the hell out of me [...] I don't know, it's like, I look at you and suddenly the sonnets make sense.”
― M.L. Rio

tags: if-we-were-villains

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#15

“You know everyone calls you 'nice'...but that's not the word. You're good. So good you have no idea how good you are.”
― M.L. Rio

tags: if-we-were-villains

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#16

“Everyone said they were witches.
I desperately wanted to believe it.”
― Laure Eve, The Graces

tags: believing, laure-eve, magic, the-graces, witches

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#17

“I fell over twice. It was loud. The garden was black outside our circle of light. The endless night stretched all around us, so we told each other that we had to be close together, together in the dark.”
― Laure Eve, The Graces

tags: emo, friendship, goth, hippie, magic, nature, party, the-graces, witchcraft, witches

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#18

“She has never believed herself fit to be loved by any person. But now she has a new life, of which this is the first moment, and even after many years have passed she will still think: Yes, that was it, the beginning of my life.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

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#19

“I was forced to acknowledge too late, much too late, that I too had loved, that I was capable of suffering, and that I was human after all.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

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