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“I'm already coming to know you, whether you like it or not. A little mad, I think; handsome and rich; bad-tempered and clever and miserably in love. And I'm mad too, I suppose, talking to a dead woman—what's got into me?”
― Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

“Do you think you lose your faith, because your faith does not want you?”
― Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

“He had the ease of a creature never told it was a sinner from the womb.”
― Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

“It was good of you to come," he said. He did not say: please come back to me soon.”
― Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

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

“If we are strong enough in our souls we can rip away the veil and look that naked, terrible beauty right in the face; let God consume us, devour us, unstring our bones. Then spit us out reborn.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“Love doesn't conquer everything. And whoever thinks it does is a fool.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“But I won't have you think my heart was broken because it was a man I loved. My heart was broken because I am alive.”
― Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

“All we owe to love is humility and gratitude that we were ever loved at all.”
― Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

“One sin, I know, another doth provoke; Murder’s as near to lust as flame to smoke.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains