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“...nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book...”
― Nickolai Gogol

“You’re too precious to put into words. I think … it’s like one of Theodore’s buttons. If you asked him why he cared about them so, he would tell you it’s because they exist at all.”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

“Humanity is so weird. If we’re not laughing, we’re crying or running for our lives because monsters are trying to eat us. And they don’t even have to be real monsters. They could be the ones we make up in our heads. Don’t you think that’s weird?”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

“I said: 'Go with my blessing if you go
Always remembering what we did. To me
You have meant everything, as you well know.”
― Sappho, Come Close

“Strange, isn’t it? To love a book. When the words on the pages become so precious that they feel like part of your own history because they are. It’s nice to finally have someone read stories I know so intimately.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

“For those who feel homesick for a place they’ve never been to. Those who seek even if they do not know what (or where) it is that they are seeking. Those who seek will find. Their doors have been waiting for them.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

“Why?” she asked as she trembled. “Why do you care so much?” “Because I don’t know how else to be.”
― T.J. Klune, Under the Whispering Door

“I’m serious, Sasha: what is so important about being human? Is it because you simply haven’t experienced anything else?”
― Marina Dyachenko, Vita Nostra

“But no one had ever been saved by memories, no one had been protected by words and pledges, and those loved greatly by others died too.”
― Marina Dyachenko, Vita Nostra

“There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray