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“I thought about all the things I had never told Nick about myself, and I started to feel better.”
― Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends

“You are not Dostoevsky,' said the woman...
'You never can tell...' he answered.
'Dostoevsky is dead,' the woman said, a bit uncertainly.
'I protest!' he said with heat, 'Dostoevsky is immortal!”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

“What do dreams mean anyway? They’re just a lot of silly nonsense.’
‘Or wish fulfilment. The subconscious representation of our true desires.”
― John Boyne, The Heart's Invisible Furies

“Once you turn your back on something, you have no more right to act as though you own it.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth