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“Yet each man kills the thing he loves,
By each let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word,
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword!

Some kill their love when they are young,
And some when they are old;
Some strangle with the hands of Gold:
The kindest use a knife, because
The dead so soon grow cold.

Some love too little, some too long,
Some sell and others buy;
Some do the deed with many tears,
And some without a sigh:
For each man kills the thing he loves,
Yet each man does not die.”
― Oscar Wilde, Selected Poems of Oscar Wilde including the Ballad of Reading Gaol

“But hurry, let's entwine ourselves as one, our mouth broken, our soul bitten by love, so time discovers us safely destroyed.”
― Federico Garcia Lorca

“Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Is it better to speak or die?”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“At the heart of all great art is an essential melancholy.”
― Federico García Lorca

“Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.”
― Allen Ginsberg

“Are you happy here?" I said at last.
He considered this for a moment. "Not particularly," he said. "But you're not very happy where you are, either.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“To quote the poets... we're fucked.”
― Marjorie M. Liu, Monstress, Volume 1: Awakening

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“We have not touched the stars,
nor are we forgiven, which brings us back
to the hero’s shoulders and the gentleness that comes,
not from the absence of violence, but despite
the abundance of it.”
― Richard Siken, Crush

“The sad truth is the truth is sad.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Hostile Hospital

“If we were teenagers, I could kiss you. But I’m on a platform behind a counter wearing a name tag and we’re too old to be young.”
― Caroline Kepnes, You

“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
― Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades

“Know something, sugar? Stories only happen to people who can tell them.”
― Allan Gurganus

“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”
― Charles M. Schulz

“She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

“It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.”
― Bill Watterson

“Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.”
― Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

“Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.”
― Jean de La Fontaine

“A tiger doesn't proclaim his tigritude, he pounces”
― Wole Soyinka

“I address you all tonight for who you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers.”
― Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret

“Ultimately, your theme will find you. You don't have to go looking for it.”
― Richard Russo

“If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky.”
― S.E. Hinton

“To say goodbye is to die a little.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye

“I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.”
― Jack London, White Fang

“There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.”
― Beatrix Potter

“Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.”
― George R. R. Martin

“Body and soul, let's all go / transformed into arrows! / Piercing the air / body and soul, let's go / with no turning back.”
― Ko Un