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“My name is Mary Katherine Blackwood. I am eighteen years old, and I live with my sister Constance. I have often thought that with any luck at all, I could have been born a werewolf, because the two middle fingers on both my hands are the same length, but I have had to be content with what I had. I dislike washing myself, and dogs, and noise. I like my sister Constance, and Richard Plantagenet, and Amanita phalloides, the death-cup mushroom. Everyone else in our family is dead.”
― Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
― Leo Tolstoy , Anna Karenina

“Crescere significa sapere di chi puoi fare a meno.”
― Nadia Terranova, Addio fantasmi

“I libri non sono un passatempo. Parlano di altre vite. Di altri mondi. Altro che far passare il tempo, Sir Kevin; non so cosa darei per averne di più.”
― Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader

“I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.”
― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

“Da allora il sole, la luna e le stelle possono continuare tranquillamente il loro corso, io non so se sia giorno o notte, e tutto il mondo svanisce intorno a me.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

“Come tutte le nature caparbie non aveva il senso del ridicolo.”
― Stefan Zweig, Novella degli scacchi - Paura - Lettera di una sconosciuta

“Stanno comprando il cartellino del prezzo, non il vestito.”
― Lee Tulloch, Favolose nullità

“I am proud of my heart alone, it is the sole source of everything, all our strength, happiness and misery. All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own”
― Goethe Wolfgang, The Sorrows of Young Werther

“Più io sono goffo avvicinandomi a lei e più, ne sono sicuro, lei è contenta. È il mio turbamento che osserva piuttosto di pensare al suo piacere, quell’attimo in cui per un miracolo che si riproduce alcuni milioni di volte al giorno, un corpo di donna diventa per un uomo la sola cosa importante al mondo.”
― Georges Simenon

“La coppia è la prova più terribile che Dio possa affliggerci.”
― Yasmina Reza, The God of Carnage

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“And if anyone asks, you're Chinese. The boy had nodded. "Chinese," he whispered. "I'm Chinese." "And I," said the girl, "am the Queen of Spain." "In your dreams," said the boy. "In my dreams," said the girl, "I'm the King.”
― Julie Otsuka, When the Emperor Was Divine

“We forgot about Buddha. We forgot about God. We developed a coldness inside us that still has not thawed. I fear my soul has died. We stopped writing home to our mothers. We lost weight and grew thin. We stopped bleeding. We stopped dreaming. We stopped wanting.”
― Julie Otsuka, The Buddha in the Attic

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Oh, fuck the paperwork”
― E.L. James, Fifty Shades of Grey

“Yes, of course duct tape works in a near-vacuum. Duct tape works anywhere. Duct tape is magic and should be worshiped.”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

“Maybe I’ll post a consumer review. “Brought product to surface of Mars. It stopped working. 0/10.”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

“You will find,” she says, “that there’s a certain grace to having your heart broken.”
― Lena Dunham, Not That Kind of Girl: A young woman tells you what she's "learned"

“Le cose, una volta pensate, che bisogno c'è di dirle?”
― Niccolò Ammaniti

“It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“In tutti questi secoli le donne hanno sempre svolto la funzione di specchi, dotati del magico e delizioso potere di riflettere la figura dell'uomo al doppio delle sue dimensioni naturali.”
― Virginia Woolf

“Gli occhi degli altri sono le nostre prigioni, i loro pensieri le nostre gabbie.”
― Virginia Woolf, Monday or Tuesday

“E io ho dedotto che il verbo “abituarsi” significa qualcosa come soffrire.”
― Walter Fontana, Splendido visto da qui

“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

“As a quick aside, let me observe that in moments of high emotion....if the next thing you're going to say makes you feel better, then it's probably the wrong thing to say. This is one of the finer maxims that I've discovered in life. And you can have it, since it's been of no use to me.”
― Amor Towles, Rules of Civility

“When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun'.”
― Groucho Marx

“Somewhere beyond right and wrong, there is a garden. I will meet you there.”
― Rumi

“If someone asks you how you are, you are meant to say FINE. You are not meant to say that you cried yourself to sleep last night because you hadn't spoken to another person for two consecutive days. FINE is what you say.”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

“If he knew, if he only knew that I was giving him every chance to put two and two together and come up with a number bigger than infinity.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name