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“Silence is a tap left running: it fills and fills until it overflows and becomes insurmountable.”
― Benjamin Stevenson, Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect

“The snow doesn't give a soft white damn whom it touches.”
― E.E. Cummings

“Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“One day you’ll realize family isn’t about whose blood runs in your veins, it’s who you’d spill it for.”
― Benjamin Stevenson, Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone

“But it is worth noting that to be good at something is not quite the same as loving it.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“What's everyone talking about?"
"The end of The Iliad."
"That's the best part," Marx said.
"Why is it the best part?" Sadie asked.
"Because it's perfect," Marx said. "'Tamer of horses' is an honest profession. The lines mean that one doesn't have to be a god or a king for your life to have meaning.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow