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  • #1
    Sally Rooney
    “Frances, are you planning to drown down there?”
    Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends

  • #2
    Emily Henry
    “I sit on the edge of the bed, feeling the loneliness swell, not knowing whether it's pressing against me from the outside or growing from within. either way, it's inescapable, my oldest companion.”
    Emily Henry, Happy Place

  • #3
    Jane Austen
    “You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.”
    Jane Austen, Persuasion

  • #4
    Dolly Alderton
    “She knows where to find everything in me and I know where all her stuff is too. She is, in short, my best friend.”
    Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love

  • #5
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “I am too young and I've loved you too much.”
    Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

  • #6
    Simone de Beauvoir
    “I tried to love you less.I couldn't.”
    Simone de Beauvoir, The Mandarins

  • #7
    Emily Brontë
    “I have not broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.”
    Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

  • #8
    Cassandra Clare
    “He caught her by the wrist, brought her hand to his bare chest. Splayed her fingers over his heart. It beat against her palm, like a fist punching its way through his sternum. 'Break my heart,' he said. 'Break it in pieces. I give you permission.”
    Cassandra Clare, Lord of Shadows

  • #9
    “Marin, under the streetlight, dancing by herself, is singing the same song somewhere. I know. Is waiting for a car to stop, a star to fall, someone to change her life.”
    Cisneros Sandra

  • #10
    Jane Austen
    “If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.”
    Jane Austen, Emma

  • #11
    Anthony Doerr
    “We rise again in the grass. In the flowers. In songs.”
    Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

  • #12
    Markus Zusak
    “The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.”
    Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

  • #13
    Joan Didion
    “She could remember it all but none of it seemed to come to anything. She had a sense the dream had ended and she had slept on.”
    Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays

  • #14
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

  • #15
    Louise Glück
    “Because you were foolish enough to love one place,
    now you are homeless, an orphan
    in succession of shelters.”
    Louise Glück, Poems, 1962-2012

  • #16
    Leo Tolstoy
    “If you love me as you say you do,' she whispered, 'make it so that I am at peace.”
    Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

  • #17
    Fredrik Backman
    “That may have been how they survived, Kira realizes: thanks to their ability not to fall apart at the same time.”
    Fredrik Backman, Beartown

  • #18
    Emily Henry
    “I already told you, Nora,” he murmurs, his fingers splaying on my stomach, just beneath my shirt. “I’ll go anywhere with you.”
    Emily Henry, Book Lovers

  • #19
    Ocean Vuong
    “When does a war end? When can I say your name and have it mean only your name and not what you left behind?”
    Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

  • #20
    Sally Rooney
    “But if you think there’s any chance that I could make you happy, I wish you would let me try. Because it’s the only thing I really want to do with my life.”
    Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You

  • #21
    L.M. Montgomery
    “Well now, I'd rather have you than a dozen boys, Anne,' said Matthew patting her hand. 'Just mind you that — rather than a dozen boys. Well now, I guess it wasn't a boy that took the Avery scholarship, was it? It was a girl — my girl — my girl that I'm proud of.”
    L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

  • #22
    Charles Dickens
    “I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.”
    Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

  • #23
    Emily Henry
    “When I watch you sleep," he said shakily, "I feel overwhelmed that you exist.”
    Emily Henry, Beach Read

  • #24
    Anne Carson
    “Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.”
    Anne Carson (Translator), Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides

  • #25
    Fredrik Backman
    “Grateful, grateful, grateful. That’s the role of mothers. But the role of children is to dream. So her son dreams that his mother will one day be able to walk into a room without having to apologize.”
    Fredrik Backman, Beartown

  • #26
    Emily Brontë
    “You said I killed you-haunt me, then! [...] Be with me always-take any form-drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!”
    Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

  • #27
    Jane Austen
    “I assure you. I have no notion of treating men with such respect. That is the way to spoil them.”
    Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
    tags: men

  • #28
    Fredrik Backman
    “I didn't want the bastards to see me bleed," she whispers to her mother.

    "Sometimes, I'm afraid that they're going to have to. To understand that you're a real person," her mother sobs, clutching her daughter so very tightly in her arms.”
    Fredrik Backman, Beartown
    tags: family

  • #29
    Charlotte Brontë
    I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.”
    Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

  • #30
    Italo Calvino
    “Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.”
    Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities



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