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#1

“It's wrong, what you say, and I beg you, if you're a good man,
to forget what you've said, as I forget it," she said at last.

"Not one word, not one gesture of yours shall I, could I, ever
forget...”
― Leo Tolstoy

tags: anna, snow, vronsky

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#2

“I'm afraid I'm becoming ridiculous.”
― Leo Tolstoy

tags: vronsky

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#3

“That’s my one desire, to be caught," answered Vronsky, with his serene,
good-humored smile. "If I complain of anything it’s only that I’m not caught
enough, to tell the truth. I begin to lose hope.”
― Leo Tolstoy

tags: anna-karenina, mischievous, rouge, sly, vronsky

6 likes

#4

“If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

tags: perfection

5740 likes

#5

“He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

tags: romantic

4110 likes

#6

“Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

tags: love, respect

3686 likes

#7

“I've always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

tags: anna-karenina, love, tolstoy

1659 likes

#8

“All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

tags: kindlehighlight

1379 likes

#9

“If you love me as you say you do,' she whispered, 'make it so that I am at peace.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

tags: love, peace

695 likes

#10

“Something magical has happened to me: like a dream when one feels frightened and creepy, and suddenly wakes up to the knowledge that no such terrors exist. I have wakened up.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

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#11

“Not one word, not one gesture of yours shall I, could I, ever forget...”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

382 likes

#12

“He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

tags: anna-karenina, fear, levin, love

365 likes

#13

“Every heart has its own skeletons.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

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#14

“He looked at her as a man might look at a faded flower he had plucked, in which it was difficult for him to trace the beauty that had made him pick and so destroy it”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

tags: anna-karenina, despair, leo-tolstoy, love, sadness

319 likes

#15

“On the moon we wore feathers in our hair, and rubies on our hands. On the moon we had gold spoons.”
― Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle

298 likes

#16

“I can't help it when people are frightened," says Merricat. "I always want to frighten them more.”
― Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle

284 likes

#17

“I was pretending that I did not speak their language; on the moon we spoke a soft, liquid tongue, and sang in the starlight, looking down on the dead dried world.”
― Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle

259 likes

#18

“We eat the year away. We eat the spring and the summer and the fall. We wait for something to grow and then we eat it.”
― Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle

tags: food

271 likes

#19

“I'm going to put death in all their food and watch them die.”
― Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle

tags: death, hate, poison

182 likes

#20

“Poor strangers, they have so much to be afraid of.”
― Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle

tags: afraid, fear, merricat, strangers

150 likes

#21

“Oh Constance, we are so happy.”
― Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle

55 likes

#22

“I would have to find something else to bury here and I wished it could be Charles.”
― Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle

53 likes

#23

“I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.”
― John Keats, Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne

tags: butterflies, days, fanny-brawne, fifty-common-years, letter, love, summer, three

2286 likes

#24

“Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold . . .” The pillow seemed to sink a little, and Johnny died.”
― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

tags: benediction, johnny-cade, ponyboy-curtis, ralph-macchio

3743 likes

#25

“It seemed funny to me that the sunset she saw from her patio and the one I saw from the back steps was the same one. Maybe the two different worlds we lived in weren't so different. We saw the same sunset.”
― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

1101 likes

#26

“They grew up on the outside of society. They weren't looking for a fight. They were looking to belong.”
― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

738 likes

#27

“You get tough like me and you don't get hurt. You look out for yourself and nothin' can touch you...”
― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

576 likes

#28

“Things are rough all over.”
― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

tags: truths

505 likes

#29

“I've been thinking about it, and that poem, that guy that wrote it, he meant you're gold when you're a kid, like green. When you're a kid everything's new, dawn. It's just when you get used to everything that it's day. Like the way you dig sunsets, Pony. That's gold. Keep that way, it's a good way to be.”
― Susan E. Hinton, The Outsiders

517 likes

#30

“It's okay. We aren't in the same class. Just don't forget that some of us watch the sunset too.”
― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

tags: class, life

442 likes

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