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“And what does a person with such a romantic temperament seek in the study of the classics? He asked this as if, having had the good fortune to catch such a rare bird as myself, he was anxious to extract my opinion while I was still captive in his office.
'If by romantic you mean solitary and introspective,' I said, 'I think romantics are frequently the best classicists.'
He laughed. 'The great romantics are often failed classicists. But that's beside the point, isn't it?”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite alarming.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“It's a very Greek idea, and a very profound one. Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it. And what could be more terrifying and beautiful, to souls like the Greeks or our own, than to lose control completely? To throw off the chains of being for an instant, to shatter the accident of our mortal selves? Euripides speaks of the Maenads: head thrown I back, throat to the stars, "more like deer than human being." To be absolutely free! One is quite capable, of course, of working out these destructive passions in more vulgar and less efficient ways. But how glorious to release them in a single burst! To sing, to scream, to dance barefoot in the woods in the dead of night, with no more awareness of mortality than an animal! These are powerful mysteries. The bellowing of bulls. Springs of honey bubbling from the ground. If we are strong enough in our souls we can rip away the veil and look that naked, terrible beauty right in the face; let God consume us, devour us, unstring our bones. Then spit us out reborn.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“Література дозволяє нам пробратися у чужі голови, у чужинські місця, і подивитись на світ чужими очима. А тоді у розповіді ми зупиняємося перед моментом смерті, и помираємо відчуджено і безболісно – а в реальному світі перегортаємо сторінку, згортаємо книжку і продовжуємо наше життя”
― Ніл Ґейман, American Gods: Tenth Anniversary

“Farsi Couplet:
Agar firdaus bar roo-e zameen ast,
Hameen ast-o hameen ast-o hameen ast.


English Translation:
If there is a paradise on earth,
It is this, it is this, it is this”
― Amir Khusrau, The Writings of Amir Khusrau: 700 Years After the Prophet: A 13th-14th Century Legend of Indian-Sub-Continent

“To overcome the need to be productive, as a lot of productivity is destructive.”
― San Mateo, San Mateo: Proof of The Divine

“How else would you get to live a thousand lives in the span of only one? The beauty of fiction is that it makes you feel things on a visceral level. You can cry with those characters, laugh with them. It teaches you to look at another’s perspective, to have empathy. In nonfiction, you simply learn about something instead of feeling it.”
― Liz Tomforde, The Right Move

“We ran for many reasons. We ran to protect ourselves. We ran so we would not die, so that our daughters could live.”
― Tracy Deonn, Bloodmarked

“She would rather live a hundred lives in three years than waste the little time she had left in these realms.”
― Helen Scheuerer, Blood & Steel

“Lucifier's bloody ball sack, I don't believe it." ~ Bones”
― Jeaniene Frost, This Side of the Grave

“She talked like a woman who knew more books than people.”
― Melissa Albert, The Hazel Wood

“You call me a monster because I won’t let you treat me like my life is worthless, a thing to be used and thrown away?” it said. “You call me a monster because I refuse to live like you think I deserve? If that’s what you mean by monster, watch me be monstrous!”
― Evan Winter, The Fires of Vengeance

“Sometimes I wish I was a woman, just so I could have an abortion.”
― John Waters

“Freud said that laughter is the outward expression of the psyche. The trouble with Freud is that he never had to play first house, Saturday night, Glasgow Empire.”
― Ken Dodd