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“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“To define is to limit.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“You said I killed you-haunt me, then! [...] Be with me always-take any form-drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!”
― Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

“He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.”
― emily bronte

“You have left me so long to struggle against death, alone, that I feel and see only death! I feel like death!”
― Emily Bronte

“Choosing a lover is a lot like choosing a therapist. We need to ask ourselves, is this someone who will be honest with me, listen to criticism, admit making mistakes, and not promise the impossible?”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

“A dragon without its rider is a tragedy.
A rider without their dragon is dead.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“Hope is a fickle, dangerous thing. It steals your focus and aims it toward the possibilities instead of keeping it where it belongs—on the probabilities.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“Fascinating. You look all frail and breakable, but you’re really a violent little thing, aren’t you?”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“Lies are comforting. Truth is painful.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“I would say, some people are like constellations that only touch the earth for a season.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“You threw me to the crows, but it turns out I prefer them to you.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“Only that: we are here. This is what it means to swim in the tide, to walk the earth and feel it touch your feet. This is what it means to be alive.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“A golden cage is still a cage.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“When I was born, the word for what I was did not exist.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“Yet because I knew nothing, nothing was beneath me.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“Witches are not so delicate.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“She moved like a wave herself, graceful, but with relentless, driving motion.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“Sorcery cannot be taught. You find it yourself, or you do not.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“We bear it as best we can,”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“The most intelligent minds are often female… is that so hard to accept?”
― Alex Michaelides, The Maidens

“It doesn’t take much to save a childhood.” A little kindness, some understanding or validation: someone to recognize and acknowledge a child’s reality—and save his sanity.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Maidens

“Well, I'd rather be lonely than be with the wrong person.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

“Nowhere is it written that you can’t do it.”
― Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend

“If you don't try, nothing ever changes.”
― Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend

“Nino has something that's eating him inside, like Lila, and it's a gift and a suffering; they aren't content, they never give in, they fear what is happening around them.”
― Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend

“He wished he loved her a little more or hated her a little less, something to tip the scale. Instead, he lived in the fraught balance between the two, each increasing the intensity of the other....”
― Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein

“All this nonsense about love being a drug, making you feel high, that's not real. It should hold you like the earth.”
― Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein

“That was the thing about New York, Cleo thought as they walked toward the buses. It never knew what you wanted, so it offered you everything.”
― Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein

“How did a person learn to live? Learn to be happy? She had surrounded herself with people who didn’t know.”
― Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein