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“Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.”
― Rumi

“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them.”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkheart

“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

“To say that I met Nicholas Brisbane over my husband's dead body is not entirely accurate. Edward, it should be noted, was still twitching upon the floor.”
― Deanna Raybourn, Silent in the Grave

“Stand and face me, my love,
and scatter the grace in your eyes.
”
― Sappho, Sweetbitter Love: Poems of Sappho

“Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“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