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  • #1
    Alexandre Dumas
    “Moral wounds have this peculiarity - they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart.”
    Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

  • #2
    Alexandre Dumas
    “I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.”
    Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

  • #3
    Madeline Miller
    “I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”
    Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

  • #4
    Madeline Miller
    “And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.”
    Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

  • #5
    Madeline Miller
    “Name one hero who was happy."
    I considered. Heracles went mad and killed his family; Theseus lost his bride and father; Jason's children and new wife were murdered by his old; Bellerophon killed the Chimera but was crippled by the fall from Pegasus' back.
    "You can't." He was sitting up now, leaning forward.
    "I can't."
    "I know. They never let you be famous AND happy." He lifted an eyebrow. "I'll tell you a secret."
    "Tell me." I loved it when he was like this.
    "I'm going to be the first." He took my palm and held it to his. "Swear it."
    "Why me?"
    "Because you're the reason. Swear it."
    "I swear it," I said, lost in the high color of his cheeks, the flame in his eyes.
    "I swear it," he echoed.
    We sat like that a moment, hands touching. He grinned.
    "I feel like I could eat the world raw.”
    Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

  • #6
    Madeline Miller
    “In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.”
    Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

  • #7
    Madeline Miller
    “He is half of my soul, as the poets say.”
    Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

  • #8
    Madeline Miller
    “When he died, all things soft and beautiful and bright would be buried with him.”
    Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

  • #9
    Madeline Miller
    “We were like gods at the dawning of the world, & our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other.”
    Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

  • #10
    Madeline Miller
    “I am made of memories.”
    Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

  • #11
    Madeline Miller
    “I have done it," she says. At first I do not understand. But then I see the tomb, and the marks she has made on the stone. A C H I L L E S, it reads. And beside it, P A T R O C L U S.
    "Go," she says. "He waits for you."

    In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.”
    Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

  • #12
    Taylor Jenkins Reid
    “People think that intimacy is about sex. But intimacy is about truth. When you realize you can tell someone your truth, when you can show yourself to them, when you stand in front of them bare and their response is 'you're safe with me'- that's intimacy.”
    Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

  • #13
    Taylor Jenkins Reid
    “I’m under absolutely no obligation to make sense to you.”
    Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

  • #14
    Taylor Jenkins Reid
    “Heartbreak is a loss. Divorce is a piece of paper.”
    Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

  • #15
    Alice Oseman
    “Give your friendships the magic you would give a romance. Because they're just as important. Actually, for us, they're way more important.”
    Alice Oseman, Loveless

  • #16
    Alice Oseman
    “I don't think I need to try everything to know I don't like it.”
    Alice Oseman, Loveless

  • #17
    Alice Oseman
    “You're gonna be OK. There's nothing you have to do except be.”
    Alice Oseman, Loveless

  • #18
    Markus Zusak
    “Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.”
    Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

  • #19
    Markus Zusak
    “It kills me sometimes, how people die.”
    Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

  • #20
    Markus Zusak
    “I am haunted by humans.”
    Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

  • #21
    Markus Zusak
    “Even death has a heart.”
    Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

  • #22
    Markus Zusak
    “His soul sat up. It met me. Those kinds of souls always do - the best ones. The ones who rise up and say "I know who you are and I am ready. Not that I want to go, of course, but I will come." Those souls are always light because more of them have been put out. More of them have already found their way to other places.”
    Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

  • #23
    Markus Zusak
    “Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.”
    Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

  • #24
    Markus Zusak
    “She was saying goodbye and she didn't even know it.”
    Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

  • #25
    David Ebershoff
    “Yes, but if I were to look down there what would I see?"
    "Don't think about it like that," Greta said. "That's not the only thing that makes you Lili.”
    David Ebershoff, The Danish Girl

  • #26
    Alexandre Dumas
    “Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another,”
    Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

  • #27
    Alexandre Dumas
    “To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.”
    Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

  • #28
    Alexandre Dumas
    “What is death? One step further into calm and two perhaps into silence.”
    Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

  • #29
    Alexandre Dumas
    “I'm not proud, but I'm happy, and I think happiness makes a man even blinder than pride.”
    Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

  • #30
    “It’s not enough to be friendly. You have to be a friend.”
    R.J. Palacio, Wonder



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