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“She might be a great person, but life's so much bigger than just loving someone.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall

“I’ve wanted you since the moment I laid eyes on you, Goldfinch. I was just waiting for you to catch up.”
― Raven Kennedy, Gleam

“It felt like the world had divided into two different types of people, those who had felt pain and those who had yet to.”
― Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart

“I’m always amazed at how books find us at the time we need them, as if there’s some omniscient, benevolent librarian in the sky.”
― Eve Babitz, Black Swans

“You remember too much,
my mother said to me recently.
Why hold onto all that? And I said,
Where can I put it down?”
― Anne Carson, Glass, Irony and God

“I'll make you mine, lovers said in old books. They never said, I'll make you me.”
― Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake

“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

“You once told me that the human eye is god's loneliest creation. How so much of the world passes through the pupil and still it holds nothing. The eye, alone in its socket, doesn't even know there's another one, just like it, an inch away, just as hungry, as empty.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous