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“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

“Death is the mother of beauty,” said Henry. “And what is beauty?” “Terror.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“All those layers of silence upon silence.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“We rise again in the grass. In the flowers. In songs.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“Happiness comes in moments, & then it's gone until the next time. Could be years. But sadness settles it.”
― Dennis Lehane, Mystic River

“Men. If you give them half a chance, they'll fuck you over just to prove they can.”
― Dennis Lehane, Mystic River

“scarred by wisdom she'd never asked for.”
― Dennis Lehane, Mystic River

“Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“I wondered why it was that places are so much lovelier when one is
alone.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

“No one but a woman can help a man when he is in trouble of the heart.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“Enter freely and of your own free will!”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“There are bad dreams for those who sleep unwisely.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“I want to cut off her head and take out her heart.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“Truly there is no such thing as finality.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“Because if a woman's heart was free a man might have hope.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula