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“How can you change the world? The answer: find seven women, turn them loose, and watch Satan tremble in their presence.” —”
― Eric Metaxas, 7 Women: And the Secret of Their Greatness

“I don't think I knew I was lonely until I met you.”
― Emily Henry, People We Meet on Vacation

“If only there could be an invention that bottled up a memory, like scent. And it never faded, and it never got stale. And then, when one wanted it, the bottle could be uncorked, and it would be like living the moment all over again.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

“I wondered how many people there were in the world who suffered, and continued to suffer, because they could not break out from their own web of shyness and reserve, and in their blindness and folly built up a great distorted wall in front of them that hid the truth.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

“Men are simpler than you imagine my sweet child. But what goes on in the twisted, tortuous minds of women would baffle anyone.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

“We're not meant for happiness, you and I.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

“In joined hands there is still some token of hope, in the clinched fist none.”
― Victor Hugo, The Toilers of the Sea

“One becomes gradually accustomed to poison.”
― Victor Hugo, The Toilers of the Sea

“Volcanoes cast forth stones, and revolutions men, so families are removed to distant places”
― Victor Hugo, The Toilers of the Sea

“Sobriety, however, can only count as a virtue when there are other virtues to support it.”
― Victor Hugo, The Toilers of the Sea

“You can’t look a gravestone in the eye and ask its forgiveness.”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

“One of the hardest things about getting old is admitting mistakes that it’s too late to put right.”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

“The worst thing about having power over other people’s lives is that you sometimes get things wrong.”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

“You never stop being scared of falling from the top, because when you close your eyes you can still feel the pain from each and every step of the way up.”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

“There are plenty of things that hurt people without people ever really knowing why. Anxiety can act as internal gravity, shrinking the soul.”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

“God, how much he annoys her sometimes, but God, how she loves him. It wasn’t a love that developed gradually, it hit her like an affliction. It’s an ongoing condition.”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

“You don’t need to understand every aspect of the ice to love it, and you don’t have to love the town to feel proud of it.”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

“Hockey is just a silly little game. We devote year after year after year to it without ever really hoping to get anything in return. We burn and bled and cry, fully aware that the most the sport can give us, in the very best scenario. is incomprehensibly meager and worthless: just a few isolated moments of transcendence. That’s all.
But what the hell else is life made of?”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

“There are thousands of ways to die in Beartown. Especially on the inside.”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

“My great miseries in this world have been Heathcliff’s miseries, and I watched and felt each from the beginning: my great thought in living is himself. If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn into a mighty stranger: I should not be seen a part of it.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff! 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

“He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“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

“If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“How is it possible to hold such anger against something you don't believe in?”
― Francine Rivers, An Echo in the Darkness

“For as he told the story of a simple Judean slave girl. Marcus Lucianus Valerian, a Roman who didn't believe in anything, proclaimed the gospel of Jesus Christ.”
― Francine Rivers, An Echo in the Darkness

“I'd rather see your honest pain than a brave front.”
― Francine Rivers, An Echo in the Darkness

“The appeal was so often the same: Make me comfortable so I can go on doing whatever I want to do. They wanted sin without consequences.”
― Francine Rivers, An Echo in the Darkness