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“The pressure rose in him, working toward the raging rebellious grief of the man-child who seeks in sound and fury for the strength of a man.”
― Mary Renault, The Charioteer

“The lovers of the innocent must protect them above all from the knowledge of their own cruelty.”
― Mary Renault, The Charioteer

“Sometimes things are easier if there isn’t anyone to know how you’re feeling.”
― Mary Renault, The Charioteer

“Remorse, even the greatest, has the nature of a debt; if we could only clear the books, we feel that we should be free. But a deep compassion has the nature of love, which keeps no balance sheet; we are no longer our own.”
― Mary Renault, The Charioteer

“I just wanted to write to tell you that I have been happy during these months together, that I have never been so happy, and that I already know I will never be so happy again.”
― Philippe Besson, Lie With Me

“This feeling of love, it transports me, it makes me happy. At the same time, it consumes me and makes me miserable, the way all impossible loves are miserable.”
― Philippe Besson, Lie With Me

“Why me?

He says: Because you are not like all the others, because I don't see anyone but you and you don't even realize it.

He adds this phrase, which for me is unforgettable: Because you will leave and we will stay.”
― Philippe Besson, Lie With Me

“For you, a thousand times over”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs,
Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

“The tragedy of life isn't that the end comes. That's the gift. Without an end, there's nothing. There's no meaning. Do you see? A moment isn't a moment. A moment is an eternity. A moment should mean something. It should be everything.”
― Iain Reid, We Spread

“This lie is one about life, that we need more of it, that we need to be more productive, produce more, that it has to be longer, that death is the enemy. It’s not true. Infinity is a breathtaking mystery, or so I used to believe. Now I know it’s not. Infinity is stagnant. It doesn’t expand. It can’t. It’s just immeasurable. It’s not a mystery, it’s simply endless.”
― Iain Reid, We Spread

“I was never inspired by something whole. It was always a fragment, a crumb, a piece of a moment, a half-forgotten impression, one side of a person. Never fully formed because it could only be my view of a thing, not someone else’s.”
― Iain Reid, We Spread

“I wish I had done more. There’s not enough time for me now. I had years and years’ worth of time. It went so fast. It went too fast.”
― Iain Reid, We Spread

“But what would the work mean if it was endless? What would a relationship mean if it kept going forever? What would a day be if it didn’t end?”
― Iain Reid, We Spread