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  • #1
    Donna Tartt
    “There is nothing wrong with the love of Beauty. But Beauty - unless she is wed to something more meaningful - is always superficial.”
    Donna Tartt, The Secret History

  • #2
    Donna Tartt
    “There are such things as ghosts. People everywhere have always known that. And we believe in them every bit as much as Homer did. Only now, we call them by different names. Memory. The unconscious.”
    Donna Tartt, The Secret History

  • #3
    Madeline Miller
    “He showed me his scars, and in return he let me pretend that I had none.”
    Madeline Miller, Circe

  • #4
    Madeline Miller
    “Humbling women seems to me a chief pastime of poets. As if there can be no story unless we crawl and weep.”
    Madeline Miller, Circe

  • #5
    Madeline Miller
    “You threw me to the crows, but it turns out I prefer them to you.”
    Madeline Miller, Circe

  • #6
    Madeline Miller
    “But perhaps no parent can truly see their child. When we look we see only the mirror of our own faults.”
    Madeline Miller, Circe

  • #7
    Madeline Miller
    “When I was born, the word for what I was did not exist.”
    Madeline Miller, Circe

  • #8
    Madeline Miller
    “You are wise,” he said.

    “If it is so,” I said, “it is only because I have been fool enough for a hundred lifetimes.”
    Madeline Miller, Circe

  • #9
    Madeline Miller
    “You can teach a viper to eat from your hands, but you cannot take away how much it likes to bite.”
    Madeline Miller, Circe

  • #10
    Benjamin Alire Sáenz
    “And it seemed to me that Dante's face was a map of the world. A world without any darkness.

    Wow, a world without darkness. How beautiful was that?”
    Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

  • #11
    Benjamin Alire Sáenz
    “I had a feeling there was something wrong with me. I guess I was a mystery even to myself.”
    Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

  • #12
    Benjamin Alire Sáenz
    “Everyone was always becoming someone else.”
    Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

  • #13
    Benjamin Alire Sáenz
    “I have always felt terrible inside. The reasons for this keep changing.”
    Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

  • #14
    Benjamin Alire Sáenz
    “Scars. A sign that you had been hurt. A sign that you had healed.”
    Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

  • #15
    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

  • #16
    Madeline Miller
    “When he died, all things soft and beautiful and bright would be buried with him.”
    Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

  • #17
    Madeline Miller
    “He is half of my soul, as the poets say.”
    Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

  • #18
    Madeline Miller
    “That is — your friend?"
    "Philtatos," Achilles replied, sharply. Most beloved.”
    Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

  • #19
    Madeline Miller
    “Achilles was looking at me. “Your hair never quite lies flat, here.” He touched my head, just behind my ear. “I don’t think I’ve ever told you how I like it.”

    My scalp prickled where his fingers had been. “You haven’t,” I said.

    “I should have.” His hand drifted down to the vee at the base of my throat, drew softly across the pulse. “What about this? Have I told you what I think of this, just here?”

    “No,” I said.

    “This surely then.” His hand moved across the muscles of my chest; my skin warmed beneath it. “Have I told you of this?”

    “That you have told me.” My breath caught a little as I spoke.

    “And what of this?” His hand lingered over my hips, drew down the line of my thigh. “Have I spoken of it?”

    “You have.”

    “And this? Surely I would not have forgotten this.” His cat’s smile. “Tell me I did not.”

    “You did not.”

    “There is this too.” His hand was ceaseless now. “I know I have told you of this.”

    I closed my eyes. “Tell me again,” I said.”
    Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

  • #20
    Madeline Miller
    “He is a weapon, a killer. Do not forget it. You can use a spear as a walking stick, but that will not change its nature.”
    Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

  • #21
    Madeline Miller
    “We reached for each other, and I thought of how many nights I had lain awake loving him in silence.”
    Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

  • #22
    Madeline Miller
    “There is no law that gods must be fair, Achilles,” Chiron said. “And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone. Do you think?”
    Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

  • #23
    Madeline Miller
    “Achilles’ eyes lift. They are bloodshot and dead. “I wish he had let you all die.”
    Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

  • #24
    Madeline Miller
    “It turned out that she did know a little Greek. A few words that her father had picked up and taught her when he heard the army was coming. Mercy was one. Yes and please and what do you want? A father, teaching his daughter how to be a slave.”
    Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

  • #25
    Douglas Adams
    “Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”
    Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

  • #26
    Douglas Adams
    “So this is it," said Arthur, "We are going to die."
    "Yes," said Ford, "except... no! Wait a minute!" He suddenly lunged across the chamber at something behind Arthur's line of vision. "What's this switch?" he cried.
    "What? Where?" cried Arthur, twisting round.
    "No, I was only fooling," said Ford, "we are going to die after all.”
    Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

  • #27
    Douglas Adams
    “Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”
    Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

  • #28
    David Nicholls
    “Dexter, I love you so much. So, so much, and I probably always will. I just don't like you anymore. I'm sorry.”
    David Nicholls, One Day

  • #29
    Markus Zusak
    “The consequence of this is that I'm always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty, and I wonder how the same thing can be both. (Death)”
    Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

  • #30
    Markus Zusak
    “Somewhere, far down, there was an itch in his heart, but he made it a point not to scratch it. He was afraid of what might come leaking out.”
    Markus Zusak, The Book Thief



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