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“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“I am nothing in my soul if not obsessive.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“And if beauty is terror,” said Julian, “then what is desire? We think we have many desires, but in fact we have only one. What is it?”
“To live,” said Camilla.
“To live forever,” said Bunny, chin cupped in palm.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“We’re all just getting by, right? And sometimes it’s easier to do that with someone who understands than to try to do it by ourselves.”
― Marisa Reichardt, Underwater

“Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“Books are the mirrors of the soul.”
― Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero