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“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“I'm in love with you," he said quietly.

"Augustus," I said.

"I am," he said. He was staring at me, and I could see the corners of his eyes crinkling. "I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have, and I am in love with you.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.”
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

“But sleep? On a night like this? What an idea! Just think of how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm.”
― Franz Kafka

“No writer in our time has been more isolated than Kafka, and yet few have achieved communication as well as he did.”
― Eugenio Montale

“I'm alone inside the world of the story, my favorite feeling in the world.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“Wherever I turn, the black wave rushes down on me.”
― Franz Kafka