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“Do you find it easy to get drunk on words?"

"So easy that, to tell you the truth, I am seldom perfectly sober.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night

“You're a kaleidoscope, you change every time I look away.”
― Rainbow Rowell, My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories

“But Marigold was enthralled by the way he said the words unwieldy. A fantasy flashed through her and in which he dictated an endless list of juicy-sounding words.

Innocuous. Sousaphone. Crepuscular.”
― Stephanie Perkins, My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories

“Women, on the other hand, had to wield their intellects like a scythe, hacking away against the stubborn underbrush of low expectations.”
― Margot Lee Shetterly, Hidden Figures

“Their path to advancement might look less like a straight line and more like some of the pressure distributions and orbits they plotted, but they were determined to take a seat at the table.”
― Margot Lee Shetterly, Hidden Figures

“She said once that time is nothing to me but a series of bookmarks that I use to jump back and forth through the text of my life, returning again and again to the events that mark me in the eyes of my more astute colleagues, as bearing all the characteristics of the classic melancholic.”
― Dennis Lehane, Shutter Island

“Once you’ve held a book and really loved it, you forever remember the feel of it, its specific weight, the way it sits in your hand.”
― Erika Swyler, The Book of Speculation

“Perhaps the book opened a door; books have a way of causing ripples.”
― Erika Swyler, The Book of Speculation

“A librarian remembers the particular scent of glue and dust, and if we’re so lucky—and I was—the smell of parchment, a quiet tanginess, softer than wood pulp or cotton rag. We would bury ourselves in books until flesh and paper became one and ink and blood at last ran together.”
― Erika Swyler, The Book of Speculation

“Her presence is like a heartbeat. I feel her skin on mine, electrons and molecules glance each other until pieces of her become me.”
― Erika Swyler, The Book of Speculation

“You must engage in horizontal refreshment. It isn’t healthy to congest oneself like that.”
― Deanna Raybourn, A Curious Beginning

“Why, that is most intriguing. A lady scientist," he said in a tone of wonderment. "What will they think of next?”
― Deanna Raybourn, A Curious Beginning

“That is the hallmark of a good partnership, you know - when one partner sees the forest and the other studies the trees.”
― Deanna Raybourn, A Curious Beginning

“People said Ove saw the world in black and white. But she was color. All the color he had.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

“To love someone is like moving into a house," Sonja used to say. "At first you fall in love in everything new, you wonder every morning that this is one's own, as if they are afraid that someone will suddenly come tumbling through the door and say that there has been a serious mistake and that it simply was not meant to would live so fine. But as the years go by, the facade worn, the wood cracks here and there, and you start to love this house not so much for all the ways it is perfect in that for all the ways it is not. You become familiar with all its nooks and crannies. How to avoid that the key gets stuck in the lock if it is cold outside. Which floorboards have some give when you step on them, and exactly how to open the doors for them not to creak. That's it, all the little secrets that make it your home.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

“The problem with knowing people too well is that their words stop meaning anything and their silences start meaning everything.”
― Elan Mastai, All Our Wrong Todays

“...the most complex physics question was a breeze compared to the contradictions of the human heart.”
― Elan Mastai, All Our Wrong Todays

“People talk about grief as emptiness, but it's not empty. It's full. Heavy. Not an absence to fill. A weight to pull. Your skin caught on hooks chained to rough boulders made of all the futures you thought you'd have.”
― Elan Mastai, All Our Wrong Todays

“And books! ...she would buy them all over and over again; she would buy up every copy, I believe, to prevent their falling into unworthy hands; and she would have every book that tells her how to admire an old twisted tree.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“He then departed, to make himself still more interesting, in the midst of an heavy rain.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“Encouraged by this to a further examination of his opinions, she proceeded to question him on the subject of books; her favourite authors were brought forward and dwelt upon with so rapturous a delight, that any young man of five-and-twenty must have been insensible indeed, not to become an immediate convert to the excellence of such works, however disregarded before. Their taste was strikingly alike. The same books, the same passages were idolized by each -- or, if any difference appeared, any objection arose, it lasted no longer than till the force of her arguments and the brightness of her eyes could be displayed. He acquiesced in all her decisions, caught all her enthusiasm, and long before his visit concluded, they conversed with the familiarity of a long-established acquaintance.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“Keep being the author of your own story. Never let anyone else write it for you again.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, Beauty and the Beast: Lost in a Book

“Belle hesitated. "What is this place?" she asked.
"A bit of magic, like all good books," the man replied. "An escape. A place where you can leave cares and worries behind." He smiled. "At least for a chapter or two.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, Beauty and the Beast: Lost in a Book

“You'd live happily ever after. On nothing but love and pastries.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, Beauty and the Beast: Lost in a Book

“It was more than a book, more than a story.
It was like nothing she'd ever known.
And everything she'd ever wanted.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, Beauty and the Beast: Lost in a Book

“To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.”
― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

“It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.”
― Isaac Asimov

“She wondered if, when human souls try to get too near each other, they do not inevitably become mere blurs to each other's vision.”
― Edith Wharton, The Glimpses of the Moon

“He knew enough of his subject to know that he did not know enough to write about it....”
― Edith Wharton, The Glimpses of the Moon