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“It's cold today, but in a spring way, and I love you.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Letters to Vera

“It's a particular kind of pleasure, of intimacy, loving a book with someone.”
― Lily King, Writers & Lovers

“Yet, in Florence's heart tonight hatred and bitterness weighed like granite, pride refused to abdicate from the throne it had held so long. Neither love nor humility had led her to the altar, but only fear.”
― James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain

“We don’t like to admit it,” said Julian, “but the idea of losing control is one that fascinates controlled people such as ourselves more than almost anything. All truly civilized people—the ancients no less than us—have civilized themselves through the willful repression of the old, animal self.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History