Bookish Hound

“Nobody is any authority on the fucks other people give,”
― Margaret Atwood, The Testaments

“We need to kill with kindness. Cure with compassion.”
― Holly Bourne, Are We All Lemmings and Snowflakes?

“We have no immortal souls; we have no future life; we are just like the green sea-weed, which, once cut down, can never revive again! Men, on the other hand, have a soul which lives for ever, lives after the body has become dust; it rises through the clear air, up to the shining stars!”
― Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid

“Longing is sort of a gross word. So is ache. Or yearn. They're all kind of gross. But that's how I had felt about touching, kissing, Coley.”
― Emily M. Danforth, The Miseducation of Cameron Post