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#1

“I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

#2

“I feel a thousand capacities spring up in me. I am arch, gay, languid, melancholy by turns. I am rooted, but I flow.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

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#3

“And the poem, I think, is only your voice speaking.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

tags: poem

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#4

“I am not one and simple, but complex and many.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

tags: existence, identity

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#5

“Grief suffocated. Grief paralysed. Grief was a cruel, heavy boot pressed so hard against his chest that he could not breathe.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

tags: babel, grief, sadness

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#6

“How strange,’ said Ramy. ‘To love the stuff and the language, but to hate the country.’

‘Not as odd as you’d think,’ said Victoire. ‘There are people, after all, and then there are things.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

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#7

“I was always going to the bookcase for another sip of the divine specific.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

tags: learning, reading

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#8

“In the years to come, Robin would return so many times to this night. He was forever astonished by its mysterious alchemy, by how easily two badly socialized, restrictively raised strangers had transformed into kindred spirits in a span of minutes.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

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#9

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

tags: quotes

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#10

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

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#11

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

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#12

“We reached for each other, and I thought of how many nights I had lain awake loving him in silence.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

tags: achilles, patroclus, the-song-of-achilles

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#13

“It is right to seek peace for the dead. You and I both know there is no peace for those who live after.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

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#14

“He is more worth to you, perhaps. But the stranger is someone else's friend and brother. So which life is more important?”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

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#15

“But books–they’re different. When you watch a film, you’re sort of an outsider looking in. With a book–you’re right there. You are inside. You are the main character.”
― Alice Oseman, Solitaire

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#16

“I actually think that a lot of people are very beautiful, and maybe even more beautiful when they are not aware of it themselves.”
― Alice Oseman, Solitaire

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#17

“I wonder- if nobody is listening to my voice, am I making any sound at all?”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

tags: alice-oseman, radio-silence

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#18

“Bedrooms are windows to the soul.”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

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#19

“...it felt like we were friends. Friends who barely knew anything about each other except the other's most private secret.”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

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#20

“It's raining." He leans on his hand. "If the sun came back out, there'd be a rainbow. It'd be beautiful." / I look out of the window. The sky is grey. "There doesn't need to be a rainbow for it to be beautiful.”
― Alice Oseman, Solitaire

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#21

“Everyone’s attractive, to be honest, even if it’s just something small, like some people have beautiful hands. I don’t know. I’m a little bit in love with everyone I meet.”
― Alice Oseman, Solitaire

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#22

“As I open the door, he murmurs: “Nothing’s going to change until you decide you want it to change.”
― Alice Oseman, Solitaire

tags: alice-oseman, depression, hope, mental-health, mental-health-books, solitaire

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#23

“He shakes his head. “You know all the names to books, but you haven’t read a single one. It’s like it’s raining money, but you refuse to catch a single coin.”
― Alice Oseman, Solitaire

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#24

“One person can change everything,' he says. 'And you have changed everything for me.”
― Alice Oseman, Solitaire

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#25

“to love and lose and still be kind”
― Warsan Shire

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#26

“She was like a crinkled poppy; with the desire to drink dry dust.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

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#27

“I am never stagnant; I rise from my worst disasters, I turn, I change.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

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#28

“Death is woven in with the violets,” said Louis. “Death and again death.”)”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

tags: death, violets

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#29

“I exist only in the soles of my feet and in the tired muscles of my thighs. We have been walking for hours it seems. But where? I cannot remember.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

tags: introspective, narrator, personal, the-waves, virginia-woolf

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#30

“I, who am perpetually making notes in the margin of my mind for some final statement, make this mark, waiting for some winter's evening.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

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