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“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Some things are too important to be taken seriously.”
― Oscar Wilde

“It's not that difficult, I want to say. People cheat all the time. The reasons are always selfish and base, it's the excuses we make that are complicated.”
― Sarah Pinborough, Behind Her Eyes

“Everyone got older but forgot to grow up.”
― Cecil Castellucci, Beige

“I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.”
― Mark Twain

“You drive me mad,” he says through clenched teeth. “I know you’re dangerous. I know you’re trouble. And still—”
“And still what?” I demand.
His hands fist at his sides. “And still I want you.”
― Jennifer K. Lambert, Never the Roses

“Well, and his library was terribly seductive.”
― Jennifer K. Lambert, Never the Roses

“Neatness counts.”
― Jennifer K. Lambert, Never the Roses