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“I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“He is half of my soul, as the poets say.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“I am made of memories.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“I’m not really sure what I am anymore, though- wether I’m a monster or wether I’m just a woman, or both.”
― Claire Kohda, Woman, Eating

“I realized how avoidance was the most attention you could give something”
― Jean Kyoung Frazier, Pizza Girl

“Est unus ex nobis. Nos defendat eius."
She is one of us. We protect her.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Hawthorne Legacy

“The trick to being abandoned was to never let yourself long for anyone who left.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Hawthorne Legacy

“Sometimes all a girl really needed was a very bad idea.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Hawthorne Legacy

“Real men wear floral when trespassing”
― Holly Jackson, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

“But sometimes remembering isn’t for yourself, sometimes you do it just to make someone else smile. Those lies were allowed.”
― Holly Jackson, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

“women can be just as dangerous as men.”
― Holly Jackson, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

“And in the dead silence of the night, Pip whispered, “Who’s taking the picture?”
― Holly Jackson, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

“It seems to me, Annie, that you are just waiting for someone to give you permission to be yourself out loud.”
― Sarah Adams, Practice Makes Perfect

“But the thing about quiet people is, we’re only quiet because our brains are so busy overthinking everything.”
― Sarah Adams, Practice Makes Perfect

“I remember feeling like I was both too much and not enough.”
― Kelly Quindlen, She Drives Me Crazy

“I just wish people could be more creative with their ignorance.”
― Kelly Quindlen, She Drives Me Crazy

“Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end.”
― Nita Prose, The Maid

“Better the devil you do know than the devil you don't”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“A complicated and risky life but a life that's mine to ruin as I see fit.”
― Ryan O'Connell, Just by Looking at Him

“I loved how a book, a story, a set of words in a sentence organized in the exact right order, made you miss places you’ve never visited, and people you’ve never met.”
― Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

“Nothing lasts forever. Not the good things, not the bad. So just find what makes you happy, and do it for as long as you can.”
― Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

“Sometimes the people you love don’t leave you with goodbyes—they just leave.”
― Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

“You only live once. And if you do it right, once is all you need.”
― Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

“If you EVER talk to my wife like that again, I’ll empty that clip in your chest.”
― Sophie Lark, Brutal Prince

“And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“There are no bargains between lion and men. I will kill you and eat you raw.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“Name one hero who was happy.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“I will never leave him. It will be this, always, for as long as he will let me.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“carry yourself with the confidence of a mediocre white man”
― Ali Hazelwood, The Love Hypothesis

“You can fall in love: someone will catch you.”
― Ali Hazelwood, The Love Hypothesis