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“Marianne, he said, I'm not a religious person but I do sometimes think God made you for me.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“When he died, all things soft and beautiful and bright would be buried with him.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“He is half of my soul, as the poets say.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“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

“my ghost won't associate with your ghost”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“It takes two to make an accident.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“I did crave attention, but I refused to humiliate myself by asking for it.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

“Remember that you and I made this journey together to a place where there was nowhere left to go.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

“One hand, five homes. A lifetime in a fist.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

“You remind me of everything that followed.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

“Do what I will never do.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

“I’m always amazed at how books find us at the time we need them, as if there’s some omniscient, benevolent librarian in the sky.”
― Eve Babitz, Black Swans

“She was America-for-spacious-skies, the reason our boys died gladly in the war.”
― Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

“The notion of my future suddenly snapped into focus: it didn't exist yet.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation