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"Sometimes I think if nobody spoke to me, I'd never speak again."
– Alice Oseman, Radio Silence
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She could never be a saint, but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick.
– Flannery O'Connor, A Temple of the Holy Ghost
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What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.
– Franz Kafka
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D.L. Smith
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Books, she has found, are a way to live a thousand lives—or to find strength in a very long one.  
— V. E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
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Peace & Quiet
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"Mock me all you like. Whatever I imagined then, now it is I who would beg and grovel for a kind word from your lips."
— The Queen Of Nothing by Holly Black
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"He's practiced in the arts of love."
— The Queen Of Nothing by Holly Black
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"If you must die, I'll envy even the earth that wraps your body"
- Albert Camus, state of siege
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“She believed a great happiness awaited her somewhere, and for this reason she remained calm as the days flew by.”
— Gyula Krúdy
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Arthur Rimbaud, tr. by William Jay Smith, from Collected Translations; “The Strolling Player,”
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Anne Carson, from Autobiography of Red
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Sylvia Plath, from “Years.”
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"He is half of my soul, as the poets say."
— The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
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"The stars will go out before I forget you."
— Lady Midnight by Cassandra Clare
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"Hell couldn’t give me a more wicked man; heaven couldn’t give me a more perfect moment."
— Laura Thalassa, Rhapsodic
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