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#1

“I am nothing in my soul if not obsessive.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

#2

“Fear of what? Failure, probably. She was the sort of perfectionist who was so desperately frightened of being any degree of inadequate that, on occasion, the effort of trying at all was enough to paralyze her with doubt.”
― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Six

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#3

“For someone who loved words as much as I did, it was amazing how often they failed me.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

tags: words

1843 likes

#4

“After all, the appeal to stop being yourself, even for a little while, is very great.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

210 likes

#5

“He wanted to care, he wanted to care so badly, but there was this gap between what he felt and what he wanted to feel, a space where something important had been carved out.”
― Victoria Schwab, Vicious

638 likes

#6

“It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

1682 likes

#7

“I did crave attention, but I refused to humiliate myself by asking for it.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

tags: attention, my-year-of-rest-and-relaxation, ottessa-moshfegh, proud

642 likes

#8

“Books are good. I can live life safely and without peril in a fictional universe.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, How to Make Friends with the Dark

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#9

“But I wasn't listening. I wasn't stopping. Because we were already running away again, me and my imagination.”
― Mona Awad, Bunny

tags: imagination

181 likes

#10

“I had absolutely no interest in being somebody else's muse.
I am not a muse.
I am the somebody.
End of fucking story.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

3038 likes

#11

“She was afraid, always, except when she was proving herself.”
― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Six

20 likes

#13

“I love you as much as I'm willing to love anybody.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

269 likes

#14

“I was a really lonely kid. The advantage to being unpopular is you get a lot more reading done.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent

35 likes

#15

“There's relief knowing I can love and be loved, after years wondering if I was so broken that there was only room for vengeance and loneliness in my heart.”
― Brynne Weaver, Butcher & Blackbird

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#16

“But such fantasies did not comfort him so much as the idea that all death meant was nothingness, that everything would just stop: the pain, the anguish, the awful, suffocating grief. If nothing else, surely, death meant peace.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

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#17

“I wanted them to see perfection. I ached for it in the deep, dark core of me: to be so good I left other people in the dust.”
― Ashley Winstead, In My Dreams I Hold a Knife

18 likes

#18

“I think I’ve been waiting my whole life for the moment someone would see something in me that wasn’t ordinary.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent

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#19

“Until now he had thought that it was the world in general he had wanted to squirm away from. But it was not the world, it was the people in it.”
― Patrick Süskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

tags: antisocial, asocial, misanthropic, patrick-suskind, perfume, the-story-of-a-murderer

20 likes

#20

“Straight people, he thinks, probably don't spend this much time convincing themselves that they're straight.”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

tags: bi, gay, lgbt

1091 likes

#21

“People left him alone. And that was all he wanted.”
― Patrick Süskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

tags: alone, solitude, want

126 likes

#22

“Really, there was nothing more dangerous than a woman who knew her own worth.”
― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Six

274 likes

#23

“The real world lady, it's out there. Do you even know that? You're going to have to get back to it sometime.”
― Mona Awad, Bunny

tags: reality

39 likes

#24

“The problem with knowledge, is its inexhaustible craving. the more of it you have, the less you feel you know”
― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Six

450 likes

#25

“to be vulnerable is a strength most of us fear.”
― Rebecca Ross, Divine Rivals

142 likes

#26

“She has always been a reader, and she cannot think of anywhere better than a bookstore”
― Victoria Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

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#26

“In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion; the more intelligent, the less sane.”
― George Orwell, 1984

161 likes

#27

“All I'm doing is trying to love people. All I need is the right kind of love back.”
― Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn

tags: lesbian, lgbtq, love, sapphic, wlw

4 likes

#28

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: truth

16088 likes

#29

“You must make time for that which matters, for that which defines you: your passion, your progress, your pen. Take it up, and write your own story.”
― V.E. Schwab, Vicious

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#30

“Is anyone actually happy?" Hazel asked.
"People like you and me? Very intelligent people? Almost never. But who knows? Perhaps we will be the exception.”
― Dana Schwartz, Immortality: A Love Story

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