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“There are some decisions, even moral ones, that are formed in regions below conscious thought.”
― Ian McEwan, Machines Like Me

“And what would she have to show for her life? How would her time on this earth be marked? Who would remember her, and for what?”
― Kristin Hannah, The Four Winds

“He’d been the only Wolcott besides Elsa who loved reading, and he’d frequently taken her side in family disagreements. Don’t worry about dying, Elsa. Worry about not living. Be brave.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Four Winds

“MANY YEARS AGO I REALIZED THAT A BOOK, a novel, is a dream that asks itself to be written in the same way we fall in love with someone: the dream becomes impossible to resist, there’s nothing you can do about it, you finally give in and succumb even if your instincts tell you to run the other way because this could be, in the end, a dangerous game—someone will get hurt.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards

“Turning the pages. Turning the pages. When we turn the page we are born again. Living and dying and living and dying and living and dying. Again, and again. And really that’s the way it ought to be. The way that reading ought to be done. Yes. Yes. Turning the pages. Turning the pages. With one’s entire life.”
― Claire-Louise Bennett, Checkout 19

“And he answered that the beauty of the cosmos derives not only from unity in variety, but also from variety in unity.”
― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

“Most people have signs that tell you who they really are.”
― Francine Pascal, Kiss Of A Killer

“A person like that can be very dangerous," Elizabeth remarked. "It's hard to love others if you hate yourself.”
― Francine Pascal, Kiss Of A Killer