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“I’d know you in the dark,” he said. “From a thousand miles away. There’s nothing you could become that I haven’t already fallen in love with.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Attachments

“Things get better — hurt less — over time. If you let them.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Attachments

“If there's one thing I've learned, it's this: We all want everything to be okay. We don't even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

“This is what love does: It makes you want to rewrite the world. It makes you want to choose the characters, build the scenery, guide the plot. The person you love sits across from you, and you want to do everything in your power to make it possible, endlessly possible. And when it’s just the two of you, alone in a room, you can pretend that this is how it is, this is how it will be.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

“I wanted the whole world or nothing.”
― Charles Bukowski, Post Office

“In the morning it was morning and I was still alive.”
― Charles Bukowski, Post Office

“Nothing made me happen. I happened.”
― Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs

“Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness except greed.”
― Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs

“Silence can mock.”
― Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs

“When women respond negatively to misogynistic or rape humor, they are "sensitive" and branded as "feminist," a word that has, as of late, become a catchall term for "woman who does not tolerate bullshit.”
― Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“You are everything good and straight and fine and true—and I see that so clearly now, in the way you’ve carried yourself and listened to your own heart. You’ve changed me more than you know, and will always be a part of everything I am. That’s one thing I’ve learned from this. No one you love is ever truly lost.”
― Paula McLain, The Paris Wife

“Not everyone out in a storm wants to be saved”
― Paula McLain, The Paris Wife

“My life was my life; I would have to stare it down, somehow, and make it work for me.”
― Paula McLain

“I'd never met anyone so vibrant or alive. He moved like light.”
― Paula McLain, The Paris Wife

“Never to go on trips with anyone you do not love.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast

“we would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast

“I thought that all generations were lost by something and always had been and always would be”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast