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“There was more to say, but for once we did not say it. There would be other times for speaking, tonight and tomorrow and all the days after that. He let go of my hand.”

“I could not find the words that would reach him. Perhaps there were none.”

“I do not know this man, I think. He is no one I have ever seen before. My rage towards him is hot as blood.”

“Our world was one of blood, and the honor it won; only cowards did not fight. For a prince there was no choice. You warred and won, or you warred and died.”

“This, out of all of it, was perhaps the strangest: that he was the commander now. He would be expected to know them all, their names and armor and stories. 𝙃𝙚 𝙣𝙤 𝙡𝙤𝙣𝙜𝙚𝙧 𝙗𝙚𝙡𝙤𝙣𝙜𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙢𝙚 𝙖𝙡𝙤𝙣𝙚.”

“Every atom is forever conserved; whatever is parted with must be inevitably be received somewhere. It cannot perish and it only exists for use. It can only go where it is attracted, and therefore required. We can only receive only what we give, and we may give only to those who can receive; and it remains either us to determine our rate of growth and the degree of harmony that we shall express.”

“We were like gods at the dawning of the world, and our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other.”

“His presence was like a stone in my shoe, impossible to ignore.”

Did not plan on reading this for my October TBR but my manager asked me to read it with her and it’s been on my shelf forever. I adored Circe so I am finally read to start this one 🤎

“Sometimes you have to leave home. Sometimes, running away means you’re headed in the exact right direction.”

“Life is for the living. Life is what you make of it.”

“They could see how love might control you, from your head to your toes, not to mention every single part of you in between.”

“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such previous feelings are gone forever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more of your own, than when you almost broke it eight years and a half ago.”

“Is not this song worth staying for?” said Anne
“No!” he replied impressively, “there is nothing worth my staying for;” and he was gone directly.

“She understood him. He could not forgive her—but he could not unfeeling.”

“There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison, no countenances so beloved. Now they were as strangers; nay, worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted. It was perpetual estrangement.”



Ouch 😩

“In music she had been always used to feel alone in the world.”

“She would not have given up her own more elegant and cultivated mind for all their enjoyments; and envied them nothing but that seemingly perfect good understanding and agreement together, that good humored mutual affection, of which she had known so little herself with either of her sisters.”

Excited to start another Jane Austin piece 🙂‍↔️❤️

I fear Kafka may not be for me but I am continuing to read with an open mind :’)

“Now the writer, as I think, has the chance to live more than other people in the presence of this reality. It is his business to find it and collect it and communicate it to the rest of us. For the reading of these books seems to perform a curious couching operation on the senses; one sees more intensely afterwards; the world seems bared of its covering and giving an intenser life.”

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”

“For if she begins to tell the truth, the figure in the looking-glass shrinks; his fitness for life is diminished.”

“The very reason why that poetry excites one to such abandonment, such rapture, is that it celebrates some feeling one used to have— but the living poets express a feeling that is being made and torn out of us at the moment. One does not recognize it in the first place; often for some reason one fears it.”

“You always get exaggerated notions about things you don’t know about.”

“Besides, I have to admit that whatever interest you can get people to take in you doesn’t last very long.”