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“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.”
― Albert Einstein

“I write only because
There is a voice within me
That will not be still”
― Sylvia Plath, Letters Home

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

“Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite alarming.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“But how,” said Charles, who was close to tears, “how can you possibly justify cold-blooded murder?’
Henry lit a cigarette. “I prefer to think of it,” he had said, “as redistribution of matter.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“Choices are made in brief seconds and paid for in the time that remains.”
― Paolo Giordano, The Solitude of Prime Numbers

“For Sabina, living in truth, lying neither to ourselves nor to others, was possible only away from the public: the moment someone keeps an eye on what we do, we involuntarily make allowances for that eye, and nothing we do is truthful. Having a public, keeping a public in mind, means living in lies.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“The so-called small stuff actually matters very much.”
― Jessica Fechtor, Stir: My Broken Brain and the Meals That Brought Me Home

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that receives it.”
― Edith Wharton

“Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.”
― Edith Wharton, Artemis to Actaeon and Other Verses

“Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own

“home is not a place or a lifestyle, but the state of your heart and all the people who take their place in it.”
― Sejal Badani, Trail of Broken Wings

“It has always been a great comfort to me that I could bring a book anywhere, to any place. To any part of my life.”
― Anton DiSclafani, The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls

“There are so many things to know and learn. She reads...and finds comfort in the fact that she will never run out of books.”
― Janice Y.K. Lee

“She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.”
― Annie Dillard, The Living

“All my life I'd told myself studying and reading and writing and working like mad was what I wanted to do, and it actually seemed to be true, I did everything well enough and got all A's, and by the time I made it to college nobody could stop me.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“You won’t understand what I mean now, but someday you will: the only trick of friendship, I think, is to find people who are better than you are—not smarter, not cooler, but kinder, and more generous, and more forgiving—and then to appreciate them for what they can teach you, and to try to listen to them when they tell you something about yourself, no matter how bad—or good—it might be, and to trust them, which is the hardest thing of all. But the best, as well.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“Next to music, beer was best.”
― Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

“The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.”
― Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter