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“My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.”
― Aimee Bender

“I so love you! It is like my heart wants to be one with yours. I feel it melting inside of me, and like sunshine flowing out through cracks and streaming into your heart.”
― Earl Lovelace, The Schoolmaster

“Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.”
― Lewis Carroll

“My love for him was -- Tyranny.”
― Samantha Hunt, The Invention of Everything Else

“What I am
is tired of jam.”
― Russell Hoban

“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.”
― Elie Wiesel

“I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.”
― Susan Sontag

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“What happens when people open their hearts?"
"They get better.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“War is what happens when language fails.”
― Margaret Atwood

“There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro

“Racism should never have happened and so you don't get a cookie for reducing it.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah

“I give boring people something to discuss over corn.”
― Aimee Bender, The Girl in the Flammable Skirt

“What we remember is probably fiction anyway.”
― Beryl Bainbridge

“My library is an archive of longings.”
― Susan Sontag, As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980

“The time will come
when, with elation,
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror,
and each will smile at the other’s welcome.”
― Derek Walcott, Sea Grapes

“Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.”
― Henry James