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“I would not let a man who knew the value of nothing make me doubt the value of myself.”
― Jennifer Saint, Ariadne

“love was an opportunity, not a burden.”
― Adib Khorram, Darius the Great Is Not Okay

“I had hit upon a truth of womanhood: however blameless a life we led, the passions and the greed of men could bring us to ruin, and there was nothing we could do.”
― Jennifer Saint, Ariadne

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“But the world is strange and endings are not truly endings no matter how the stars might wish it so.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

“For those who feel homesick for a place they’ve never been to. Those who seek even if they do not know what (or where) it is that they are seeking. Those who seek will find. Their doors have been waiting for them.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

“The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.”
― Oyinkan Braithwaite, My Sister, the Serial Killer

“It’s because she is beautiful, you know. That’s all it is. They don’t really care about the rest of it. She gets a pass at life.”
― Oyinkan Braithwaite, My Sister, the Serial Killer

“When no one understands, that's usually a good sign that you're wrong.”
― Victoria Schwab, Vicious

“Why do we romanticize the dead? Why can't we be honest about them? Especially moms. They're the most romanticized of anyone.

Moms are saints, angels by merely existing. NO ONE could possibly understand what it's like to be a mom. Men will never understand. Women with no children will never understand. No one buts moms know the hardship of motherhood, and we non-moms must heap nothing but praise upon moms because we lowly, pitiful non-moms are mere peasants compared to the goddesses we call mothers.”
― Jennette McCurdy, I'm Glad My Mom Died

“English did not just borrow words from other languages; it was stuffed to the brim with foreign influences, a Frankenstein vernacular. And Robin found it incredible, how this country, whose citizens prided themselves so much on being better than the rest of the world, could not make it through an afternoon tea without borrowed goods.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

“I was born into the apocalypse.
It's probably unhelpful to throw around a word like "apocalypse," and to be honest I couldn't tell you whether it's even apt.
It looks like an apocalypse from here. Or from now. From a distance, it looks like the world ended. Maybe it did.
But—and I suspect that this isn't something people like to admit; I've seen a lot of people who lived through that time not admitting this—it didn't feel like an apocalypse.
It just felt like life.”
― Jeffrey Cranor, You Feel It Just Below the Ribs

“If I could get back my youth, I'd do anything in the world except get up early, take exercise or be respectable.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“I'm not a religious person but I do sometimes think God made you for me.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People