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“Fear cuts deeper than swords.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“silence is not weakness and decency is not pride”
― Arthur Machen

“My ambition is handicapped by laziness”
― Charles Bukowski, Factotum

“It didn't matter in the end how old they had been, or that they were girls, but only that we had loved them, and that they hadn't heard us calling, still do not hear us, up here in the tree house, with our thinning hair and soft bellies, calling them out of those rooms where they went to be alone for all time, alone in suicide, which is deeper than death, and where we will never find the pieces to put them back together.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

“We couldn't imagine the emptiness of a creature who put a razor to her wrists and opened her veins, the emptiness and the calm.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

“In the end we had the pieces of the puzzle, but no matter how we put them together, gaps remained, oddly shaped emptinesses mapped by what surrounded them, like countries we couldn't name.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

“I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control. ”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.”
― Howard Phillips Lovecraft

“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
― Lewis Carroll

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Every love story is a ghost story.”
― David Foster Wallace, The Pale King

“Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

“Resist much, obey little.”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

“Sometimes people put up walls, not to keep others out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.”
― Banana Yoshimoto

“Once you’ve accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King