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“I am nothing in my soul if not obsessive.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“When does a war end? When can I say your name and have it mean only your name and not what you left behind?”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
― Oscar Wilde

“What would a girl do with a book about death and dying?”
― Jenny Erpenbeck, Kairos

“It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

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

“Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“I suppose at one time in my life I might have had any number of stories, but now there is no other. This is the only story I will ever be able to tell.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“I miss you more than I remember you.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“They say nothing lasts forever but they're just scared it will last longer than they can love it.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“Sometimes being offered tenderness feels like the very proof that you've been ruined.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“Too much joy, I swear, is lost in our desperation to keep it.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“I'm not here to write, I'm here to be mad.”
― Robert Walser