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“Since those two are involving me in their crimes, I take it personally.” “We.”
― Christelle Dabos, The Storm of Echoes

“If, at any time, something doesn’t suit you . . . a gesture I make, a word I don’t say . . . you must tell me so. I don’t want to have to wonder why I can’t manage to make my wife happy.”
― Christelle Dabos, The Storm of Echoes

“Shopping had a kind of numbing effect on me, and now that it’s no longer something I do, I’ve started having thoughts and feelings that have turned out to be sad.”
― Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century

“One word.”
― Christelle Dabos, The Storm of Echoes

“For us.”
― Christelle Dabos, The Storm of Echoes

“I lean forward so that my whisper carries to her ear. “I’m going to come back one day.” There’s no trace of anger in my voice. Just promise.”
― James Islington, The Will of the Many

“I’ve never had to navigate a crush of bodies like this. The jostling, the heat, the smell, the noise: it’s all unpleasant, all an experience I immediately wish to be over. How can people come here, knowing it will be like this? How can they enjoy this?”
― James Islington, The Will of the Many

“I have a fair idea of how to ingratiate myself with others. I just, on the whole, never cared for it. Having to feign interest in those you don’t like, or at least don’t know well enough to have an opinion on. Pretending to have their interests at heart when in reality, you’re just figuring out how to make the best use of them. It’s all so… disingenuous.”
― James Islington, The Will of the Many

“I spend the morning working on subway ad taglines for a Swedish yogurt company. I’m a dairy good idea. I have culture! Spoon me … Then kill me.”
― Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein

“And in every iteration of my imagination, Sòng Lián, I am with you.”
― Amélie Wen Zhao, Dark Star Burning, Ash Falls White

“You can’t cheat grief, Ricki. You have to work with it. Accommodate it.”
― Tia Williams, A Love Song for Ricki Wilde

“Come now, sir, dry those eyes.”
― Genki Kawamura, If Cats Disappeared from the World

“I’d be flattered if you continued to live, sir. I could never be happy in a world deprived of your existence.”
― Genki Kawamura, If Cats Disappeared from the World

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“What are men to rocks and mountains?”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“He is a gentleman, and I am a gentleman's daughter. So far we are equal.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“It's been many years since I had such an exemplary vegetable.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“The phrase “see attached bibliography” is the single sexiest thing you have ever written to me.”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

“You who call women the fairer sex, you may repress and deny all you want, but some of us were born with a howling void where our souls should sway.”
― Chelsea G. Summers, A Certain Hunger

“Stupid, stupid. Everything was stupid. There wasn’t a thing she wanted to do. There were thousands of things she didn’t want to do.”
― Elizabeth von Arnim, The Enchanted April

“Was this how the lovers of Pompeii felt when the magma covered them? I was deluged by something very hot, and the world seemed to stop turning.”
― Sang Young Park, Love in the Big City