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“My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.”
― Patricia Highsmith

“Dreams don’t often come true, do they? Wouldn’t it be nice if they did?”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“Reading stories is bad enough but writing them is worse.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“Some people are naturally good, you know, and others are not. I'm one of the others.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“If you can't be cheerful, be as cheerful as you can.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“Imagination is what you need.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“It’s so much more romantic to end a story up with a funeral than a wedding.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
― L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“But if you call me Anne, please call me Anne with an 'e'.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“Red hair is my life long sorrow.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“I can't cheer up — I don't want to cheer up. It's nicer to be miserable!”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“The problem with books is that they end.”
― Caroline Kepnes, You

“The only thing crueler than a cage so
small that a bird can’t fly is a cage so
large that a bird thinks it can fly.”
― Caroline Kepnes, You

“Work in a bookstore and learn that most people in this world feel guilty about being who they are.”
― Caroline Kepnes, You

“You are a woman and I am a man and we belong in the dark together.”
― Caroline Kepnes, You

“Talking to you is like traveling through time.”
― Caroline Kepnes, You

“Well, sometimes you just want to go where it’s dark, you know?”
― Caroline Kepnes, You

“My middle school health teacher told us that you can hold eye contact for ten seconds before scaring or seducing someone.”
― Caroline Kepnes, You

“Some people, it’s like they care more about their status updates than their actual lives.”
― Caroline Kepnes, You

“Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.”
― William Faulkner

“Life is just one small piece of light between two eternal darknesses.”
― vladimir nabokov, Lolita

“Be true to your Dick.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, The Annotated Lolita

“Never rude, always aloof.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“The trick and the beauty of language is that it seems to order the whole universe, misleading us into believing that we live in sight of a rational space, a possible harmony.”
― John Burnside, The Dumb House

“If the components of the body were organs and veins and cells, then the components of thought and language were words and grammar.”
― John Burnside, The Dumb House

“Sometimes, coming home in the early morning like this, I'd imagine things had altered while I was absent: a knife on the bread board that I didn't remember leaving out, a book face down on the table, a cup brimming with tea and dishwater in the sink. The evidence I wanted didn't need to be too elaborate or detailed. I could have constructed an entire afterlife from a half-moon of lemon rind or a small blister of jam on the tablecloth.”
― John Burnside, The Dumb House

“No one could say it was my choice to kill the twins, any more than it was my decision to bring them into the world.”
― John Burnside, The Dumb House

“Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.”
― Charles Bukowski

“If I cannot move heaven, I will raise hell.”
― Virgil