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  • #1
    Stieg Larsson
    “There are no innocents. There are, however, different degrees of responsibility.”
    Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Played with Fire

  • #2
    Stieg Larsson
    “But she wished she had had the guts to go up to him and say hello. Or possibly break his legs, she wasn't sure which.”
    Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Played with Fire

  • #3
    Stieg Larsson
    “Friendship- my definition- is built on two things. Respect and trust. Both elements have to be there. And it has to be mutual. You can have respect for someone, but if you don't have trust, the friendship will crumble.”
    Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

  • #4
    Stieg Larsson
    “What she had realized was that love was that moment when your heart was about to burst.”
    Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

  • #5
    Stieg Larsson
    “Impulsive actions led to trouble, and trouble could have unpleasant consequences.”
    Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

  • #6
    Seth Grahame-Smith
    “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains.”
    Seth Grahame-Smith, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

  • #7
    Seth Grahame-Smith
    “Of all the weapons she had commanded, Elizabeth knew the least of love; and of all the weapons in the world, love was the most dangerous.”
    Seth Grahame-Smith, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
    tags: truth

  • #8
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #9
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #10
    Oscar Wilde
    “I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #11
    Oscar Wilde
    “Hearts are made to be broken.”
    Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

  • #12
    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #13
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #14
    Madeline Miller
    “I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”
    Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

  • #15
    Madeline Miller
    “Name one hero who was happy."
    I considered. Heracles went mad and killed his family; Theseus lost his bride and father; Jason's children and new wife were murdered by his old; Bellerophon killed the Chimera but was crippled by the fall from Pegasus' back.
    "You can't." He was sitting up now, leaning forward.
    "I can't."
    "I know. They never let you be famous AND happy." He lifted an eyebrow. "I'll tell you a secret."
    "Tell me." I loved it when he was like this.
    "I'm going to be the first." He took my palm and held it to his. "Swear it."
    "Why me?"
    "Because you're the reason. Swear it."
    "I swear it," I said, lost in the high color of his cheeks, the flame in his eyes.
    "I swear it," he echoed.
    We sat like that a moment, hands touching. He grinned.
    "I feel like I could eat the world raw.”
    Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

  • #16
    Madeline Miller
    “And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.”
    Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

  • #17
    Sarah Penner
    “To me, the allure of history lay in the minutiae of life long ago, the untold secrets of ordinary people.”
    Sarah Penner, The Lost Apothecary

  • #18
    Madeline Miller
    “But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me.”
    Madeline Miller, Circe

  • #19
    Madeline Miller
    “He showed me his scars, and in return he let me pretend that I had none.”
    Madeline Miller, Circe

  • #20
    Madeline Miller
    “You threw me to the crows, but it turns out I prefer them to you.”
    Madeline Miller, Circe

  • #21
    Madeline Miller
    “I would say, some people are like constellations that only touch the earth for a season.”
    Madeline Miller, Circe

  • #22
    Madeline Miller
    “The thought was this: that all my life had been murk and depths, but I was not a part of that dark water. I was a creature within it.”
    Madeline Miller, Circe

  • #23
    Karina Halle
    “Yeet me into the sea, fairy girl,”
    Karina Halle, River of Shadows



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