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“Spira, spera.

(breathe, hope)”
― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

“If you ever get the chance to make someone smile, or better yet, make someone laugh, then you take it. Each and every time,”
― Chris Whitaker, All the Colors of the Dark

“Are you OLD?"
"No. I'm only twelve. But I've been that for a long time.”
― John Ajvide Lindqvist, Let the Right One In

“Men carve meaning into women’s faces; messages addressed to other men.”
― Pat Barker, The Silence of the Girls

“Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I can not live without my life! I can not live without my soul!”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“The bad are the few, but often they shout louder than the many. Don’t mistake silence for weakness.”
― Chris Whitaker, All the Colors of the Dark

“I don’t like knowing people in the context of things. "Oh, that’s the person I work out with. That’s the person I’m in a book club with. That’s the person I did that show with." Because once the context ends, so does the friendship”
― Jennette McCurdy, I'm Glad My Mom Died

“The power of women! I've never felt so full of mysterious power. Men are a joke.
We're so weak physically, so helpless with things. Still, even today. But we're stronger than they are. We can stand their cruelty. They can't stand ours.”
― John Fowles, The Collector

“mothers are often fondest of the child which has caused them the greatest pain.”
― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

“The thirteen-year-old pirate. And the beekeeper that saved his life.”
― Chris Whitaker, All the Colors of the Dark

“-there was something in her, something that was...pure horror. Everything you were supposed to watch out for. Heights, fire, shards of glass, snakes, Everything that his mom tried so hard to keep him safe from.”
― John Ajvide Lindqvist, Let the Right One In

“Sorry I broke your music machine.”
― John Ajvide Lindqvist, Let the Right One In

“I am haunted by humans.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“That’s how you should be. Accept your burden and carry it, with joy. That’s how you should be”
― John Ajvide Lindqvist, Let Me In

“You would have imagined her at one moment a maniac, at another a queen.”
― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

“Closed his mouth. Then pressed a kiss on Oskar's lips. For a few seconds Oskar saw through Eli's eyes. And what he saw was... himself. Only much better, more handsome, stronger than what he thought of himself. Seen with love.”
― John Ajvide Lindqvist, Let the Right One In

“by making himself a priest made himself a demon.”
― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

“To a gargoyle on the ramparts of Notre Dame as Esmeralda rides off with Gringoire Quasimodo says. "Why was I not made of stone like thee?”
― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

“He found that man needs affection, that life without a warming love is but a dry wheel, creaking and grating as it turns.”
― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

“Be me a little.”
― John Ajvide Lindqvist, Let the Right One In

“War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can't have any result whatever, you've beaten them.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Sometimes at night I lie awake and quarrel with the voices in my head.”
― Pat Barker, The Silence of the Girls

“I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“I have not broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“Reading isn’t a privilege, sir. I believe we all have the right to leave our problems and escape into another world, if only through the written word.”
― Chris Whitaker, All the Colors of the Dark

“Just because you can’t express your feelings it doesn’t mean they’re not deep.”
― John Fowles, The Collector

“I have to remind myself to breathe -- almost to remind my heart to beat!”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods: time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Healthcliff! He's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights