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  • #1
    Leo Tolstoy
    “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

  • #2
    Leo Tolstoy
    “I'm afraid I'm becoming ridiculous.”
    Leo Tolstoy

  • #3
    Leo Tolstoy
    “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

  • #4
    Leo Tolstoy
    “If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”
    Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

  • #5
    Leo Tolstoy
    “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

  • #6
    Leo Tolstoy
    “Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.”
    Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

  • #7
    Leo Tolstoy
    “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

  • #8
    Leo Tolstoy
    “All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.”
    Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

  • #9
    Leo Tolstoy
    “If you love me as you say you do,' she whispered, 'make it so that I am at peace.”
    Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

  • #10
    Leo Tolstoy
    “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

  • #11
    Leo Tolstoy
    “Not one word, not one gesture of yours shall I, could I, ever forget...”
    Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

  • #12
    Leo Tolstoy
    “He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.”
    Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

  • #13
    Leo Tolstoy
    “Every heart has its own skeletons.”
    Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

  • #14
    Leo Tolstoy
    “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

  • #15
    Shirley Jackson
    “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

  • #16
    Shirley Jackson
    “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

  • #17
    Shirley Jackson
    “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

  • #18
    Shirley Jackson
    “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

  • #19
    Shirley Jackson
    “I'm going to put death in all their food and watch them die.”
    Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle

  • #20
    Shirley Jackson
    “Poor strangers, they have so much to be afraid of.”
    Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle

  • #21
    Shirley Jackson
    “Oh Constance, we are so happy.”
    Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle

  • #22
    Shirley Jackson
    “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

  • #23
    John Keats
    “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

  • #24
    S.E. Hinton
    “Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold . . .” The pillow seemed to sink a little, and Johnny died.”
    S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

  • #25
    S.E. Hinton
    “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

  • #26
    S.E. Hinton
    “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

  • #27
    S.E. Hinton
    “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

  • #28
    S.E. Hinton
    “Things are rough all over.”
    S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

  • #29
    S.E. Hinton
    “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

  • #30
    S.E. Hinton
    “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



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