Esmé

“More than anything I was relieved that in my unfamiliar babbling-and-wanting-to-talk state I'd stopped myself from blurting the thing I'd never said, even though it was something we both knew well enough without me saying out loud to him in the street - which was, of course, I love you.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“Mors irrumat omnia. Death fucks us all.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House

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