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  • #1
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #2
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.”
    Edgar Allan Poe

  • #3
    Anne Brontë
    “But he who dares not grasp the thorn
    Should never crave the rose.”
    Anne Bronte

  • #4
    Thomas Mann
    “Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.”
    Thomas Mann, Death in Venice and Other Tales

  • #5
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson's Essays

  • #6
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.”
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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    Nikki Rowe
    “He touched my soul long before I knew what his hands felt like.”
    Nikki Rowe

  • #9
    Madeline Miller
    “He is a weapon, a killer. Do not forget it. You can use a spear as a walking stick, but that will not change its nature.”
    Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

  • #10
    “If God is for us, who can be against us?”
    Anonymous, The Holy Bible: King James Version

  • #11
    John Donne
    “No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face."

    [The Autumnal]”
    John Donne, The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose

  • #12
    Charles Baudelaire
    “The beautiful is always bizarre.”
    Charles Baudelaire

  • #13
    Cassandra Clare
    “Looking at him now-even if she hadn't been in love with him, that part of her that was her mother's daugher, that loved every beautiful thing for its beauty alone, would still have wanted him.”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Glass

  • #14
    Sylvia Plath
    “Out of the ash
    I rise with my red hair
    and I eat men like air.”
    Sylvia Plath, Ariel: The Restored Edition

  • #15
    L.M. Montgomery
    “Red hair is my life long sorrow.”
    L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

  • #16
    Raymond Chandler
    “There was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot dry Santa Anas that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair and make your nerves jump and your skin itch. On nights like that every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands' necks. Anything can happen. You can even get a full glass of beer at a cocktail lounge.”
    Raymond Chandler, Red Wind: A Collection of Short Stories

  • #17
    John Keats
    “O let me lead her gently o'er the brook,
    Watch her half-smiling lips and downward look;
    O let me for one moment touch her wrist;
    Let me one moment to her breathing list;
    And as she leaves me, may she often turn
    Her fair eyes looking through her locks auburne.”
    John Keats, Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne

  • #18
    George R.R. Martin
    “My skin has turned to porcelain, to ivory, to steel.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

  • #19
    William Shakespeare
    “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind. Nor hath love's mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste: And therefore is love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd.”
    William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

  • #20
    Madeline Miller
    “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

  • #21
    Madeline Miller
    “He is half of my soul, as the poets say.”
    Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

  • #22
    Madeline Miller
    “I am made of memories.”
    Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

  • #23
    Madeline Miller
    “He smiled, and his face was like the sun.”
    Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

  • #24
    Kate Elizabeth Russell
    “Because even if I sometimes use the word abuse to describe certain things that were done to me, in someone else’s mouth the word turns ugly and absolute. It swallows up everything that happened.”
    Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

  • #25
    Kate Elizabeth Russell
    “Somehow I sensed what was coming for me even then. Really, though, what girl doesn’t? It looms over you, that threat of violence. They drill the danger into your head until it starts to feel inevitable. You grow up wondering when it’s finally going to happen.”
    Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

  • #26
    Kate Elizabeth Russell
    “I wonder how much victimhood they’d be willing to grant a girl like me.”
    Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

  • #27
    Kate Elizabeth Russell
    “Sometimes it feels like that’s all I’m doing every time I reach out—trying to haunt, to drag him back in time, asking him to tell me again what happened. Make me understand it once and for all. Because I’m still stuck here. I can’t move on.”
    Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

  • #28
    Kate Elizabeth Russell
    “She didn't understand the horror of watching your body star in something your mind didn't agree to.”
    Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

  • #29
    Kate Elizabeth Russell
    “He touched me first, said he wanted to kiss me, told me he loved me. Every first step was taken by him. I don’t feel forced, and I know I have the power to say no, but that isn’t the same as being in charge. But maybe he has to believe that. Maybe there’s a whole list of things he has to believe.”
    Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

  • #30
    Kate Elizabeth Russell
    “Hide all you want, but the truth will always find you.”
    Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa



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