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  • #1
    Sarah J. Maas
    “You could rattle the stars," she whispered. "You could do anything, if only you dared. And deep down, you know it, too. That’s what scares you most.”
    Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

  • #2
    Jane Austen
    “I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.”
    Jane Austen, Persuasion

  • #3
    John Joseph Powell
    “It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.”
    John Joseph Powell, The Secret of Staying in Love

  • #4
    Kathleen Tessaro
    “If you can capture a woman's imagination, then you will have her. But imagination is a strange creature. It needs time and distance to function properly.”
    Kathleen Tessaro

  • #5
    Charlaine Harris
    “You are speaking of my future lover. Be more respectful.”
    Charlaine Harris, Club Dead

  • #6
    Julia Quinn
    “You always get more respect when you don't have a happy ending.”
    Julia Quinn

  • #7
    Jess C. Scott
    “I felt like an animal, and animals don’t know sin, do they?”
    Jess C. Scott, Wicked Lovely

  • #8
    “Do you want to know why men name their penis? So the most important decisions in their life aren't made by a stranger.”
    Linda Howard, After the Night

  • #9
    Tabitha Suzuma
    “It's always nice being wanted. Even if it's by the wrong person.”
    Tabitha Suzuma, Forbidden

  • #10
    George Carlin
    “Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?”
    George Carlin

  • #11
    Hermann Hesse
    “Love must not entreat,' she added, 'or demand. Love must have the strength to become certain within itself. Then it ceases merely to be attracted and begins to attract.”
    Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

  • #12
    Katy Evans
    “I feel claimed and bonded to him like animals do. I feel like I've already been caught and trapped and he's merely priming me, leaving me to simmer in my juices, anxiously waiting for the moment when he takes his first bite of me.”
    Katy Evans, Real

  • #13
    Andy Warhol
    “Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.”
    Andy Warhol

  • #14
    “I found myself in a pattern of being attracted to people who were somehow unavailable, and what I realized was that I was protecting myself because I equate the idea of connection and love with trauma and death.”
    Zachary Quinto

  • #15
    Wayne Gerard Trotman
    “Ah, fairest maiden, thine beauty doth maketh mine loins stir, and mine cup runneth over.”
    Wayne Gerard Trotman, Kaya Abaniah and the Father of the Forest

  • #16
    Emily St. John Mandel
    “(Idea for a ghost story: a woman gets old and falls out of time and realizes that she’s become invisible.)”
    Emily St. John Mandel, The Glass Hotel

  • #17
    Susan Elizabeth Phillips
    “She was voluptuous, full-blown, past her prime, and he’d never wanted a woman more.”
    Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Kiss an Angel

  • #18
    “She would rather be respected than desired and she didn't understand why a woman would make a different choice than that. When she had been younger, she had felt there was something lacking in her, the way she didn't seem to want passion, pleasure, the way her friends sometimes whispered that they did, the way they giggled over vegetable markets, comparing their husbands' genitals, the way they sighed over kissing scenes in movies, complaining that their husbands never touched them that way anymore. Now Swati didn’t have to feel that there was anything wrong with her. A woman her age wasn’t supposed to want such things.”
    Leah Franqui, Mother Land

  • #19
    Junnita Jackson
    “I think a man's "wordplay" can be so fucking sexy!!! I love a good mind fuck!!”
    Junnita Jackson

  • #20
    Kristian Ventura
    “He really liked her—especially the way her femininity stimulated him. Alejandra was the type of girl that never let a boy entirely have her. If his lips tried to go for a random peck, she would turn the opposite way and smile a “no.” They would be seated at a restaurant and her peppy, shy voice would say, “Thank you for taking me here, but don’t expect anything.” He felt like he had her slippery heart in his hands, but never held it—instead her heart levitated, floating a few centimeters above his twitching fingertips, shining like a fickle disco ball, magnetized in the air by Alejandra’s masterfully crafted tension. She perfected this practice and learned it from her older sister. Except Alejandra felt that she was not as intelligent or gorgeous as other women, and that this prowess was all she had.”
    Karl Kristian Flores, A Happy Ghost

  • #21
    “Hope was a dangerous, disquieting thing, but he thought perhaps he liked it.”
    Nora Sakavic, The Foxhole Court

  • #22
    Franz Kafka
    “Now I can look at you in peace; I don't eat you any more.”
    Franz Kafka

  • #23
    Franz Kafka
    “April 27. Incapable of living with people, of speaking. Complete immersion in myself, thinking of myself. Apathetic, witless, fearful. I have nothing to say to anyone - never.”
    Franz Kafka, Diaries, 1910-1923

  • #24
    Franz Kafka
    “Last night I dreamed about you. What happened in detail I can hardly remember, all I know is that we kept merging into one another. I was you, you were me. Finally you somehow caught fire.”
    Franz Kafka

  • #25
    Franz Kafka
    “From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.”
    Franz Kafka, The Trial

  • #26
    Franz Kafka
    “Please — consider me a dream.”
    Franz Kafka

  • #27
    Franz Kafka
    “I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.”
    Franz Kafka

  • #28
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “You were destined for me. Perhaps as a punishment.”
    Dostoievski

  • #29
    Haruki Murakami
    “Se parece a lo que Dostoievski escribió sobre el juego. Es decir, cuando a tu alrededor todo son oportunidades, es muy difícil pasar de largo sin aprovecharlas.”
    Murakami, Haruki

  • #30
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Sí, a veces la idea más delirante, la que parece más imposible, se le clava a uno en la cabeza con tal fuerza que acaba por juzgarla realizable... Más aún, si esa idea va unida a un deseo fuerte y apasionado acaba uno por considerarla a veces como algo fatal, necesario, predestinado, como algo que es imposible que no sea, que no ocurra.”
    Fedor Dostoievski, The Gambler



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