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  • #1
    J.M. Barrie
    “To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
    J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

  • #2
    J.M. Barrie
    “Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.”
    J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

  • #3
    J.M. Barrie
    “The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.”
    J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan

  • #4
    John Keats
    “Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all
    Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know”
    John Keats, The Complete Poems

  • #5
    Donna Tartt
    “Does such a thing as 'the fatal flaw,' that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? I used to think it didn't. Now I think it does. And I think that mine is this: a morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs.”
    Donna Tartt, The Secret History

  • #6
    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

  • #7
    Madeline Miller
    “And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.”
    Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

  • #8
    Madeline Miller
    “But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me.”
    Madeline Miller, Circe

  • #9
    Madeline Miller
    “I thought: I cannot bear this world a moment longer. Then, child, make another.”
    Madeline Miller, Circe

  • #10
    Madeline Miller
    “I thought once that gods are the opposite of death, but I see now they are more dead than anything, for they are unchanging, and can hold nothing in their hands.”
    Madeline Miller, Circe

  • #11
    Madeline Miller
    “Only that: we are here. This is what it means to swim in the tide, to walk the earth and feel it touch your feet. This is what it means to be alive.”
    Madeline Miller, Circe

  • #12
    Madeline Miller
    “A golden cage is still a cage.”
    Madeline Miller, Circe

  • #13
    M.L. Rio
    “For someone who loved words as much as I did, it was amazing how often they failed me.”
    M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

  • #14
    M.L. Rio
    “You can justify anything if you do it poetically enough.”
    M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

  • #15
    M.L. Rio
    “How tremendous the agony of unmade decisions.”
    M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

  • #16
    M.L. Rio
    “Per aspera ad astra. I’d heard a variety of translations, but the one I liked best was Through the thorns, to the stars.”
    M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

  • #17
    Amanda Lovelace
    “repeat after me:
    you owe
    no one
    your forgiveness.

    - except maybe yourself.”
    Amanda Lovelace, The Princess Saves Herself in This One

  • #18
    Amanda Lovelace
    “silence has always been my loudest scream.”
    Amanda Lovelace, The Princess Saves Herself in this One

  • #19
    Margaret Atwood
    “Don't let the bastards grind you down.”
    Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

  • #20
    Margaret Atwood
    “Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.”
    Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

  • #21
    Margaret Atwood
    “When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.”
    Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

  • #22
    Neil Gaiman
    “I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.”
    Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

  • #23
    Neil Gaiman
    “Books were safer than other people anyway.”
    Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

  • #24
    Neil Gaiman
    “Oh, monsters are scared," said Lettie. "That's why they're monsters.”
    Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

  • #25
    R.F. Kuang
    “That's just what translation is, I think. That's all speaking is. Listening to the other and trying to see past your own biases to glimpse what they're trying to say. Showing yourself to the world, and hoping someone else understands.”
    R.F. Kuang, Babel

  • #26
    R.F. Kuang
    “This is how colonialism works. It convinces us that the fallout from resistance is entirely our fault, that the immoral choice is resistance itself rather than the circumstances that demanded it.”
    R.F. Kuang, Babel

  • #27
    R.F. Kuang
    “Be selfish," he whispered. "Be brave.”
    R.F. Kuang, Babel

  • #28
    R.F. Kuang
    “I suppose we decided to be girls because being boys seems to require giving up half your brain cells.”
    R.F. Kuang, Babel

  • #29
    R.F. Kuang
    “We're here to make magic with words”
    R.F. Kuang, Babel

  • #30
    R.F. Kuang
    “…there is no such thing as humane colonization.”
    R.F. Kuang, Babel



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