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“Do people always fall in love with things they can't have?'

'Always,' Carol said, smiling, too.”
― Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt

“There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“And you make people nervous, young man," she said - most equably, for her. "You either take to somebody or you don't. If you do, then you do all the talking and nobody can even get a word in edgewise. If you don't like somebody - which is most of the time - then you just sit around like death itself and let the person talk themself into a hole. I've seen you do it.”
― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

“This whole goddamn house stinks of ghosts.”
― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey