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“Do you blame Shakespeare for any of it?”
The question is so unlikely, so nonsensical coming from such a sensible man, that I can’t suppress a smile. “I blame him for all of it.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“Does such a thing as 'the fatal flaw,' that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? I used to think it didn't. Now I think it does. And I think that mine is this: a morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“Younger men had to make everything mean something, had to turn every choice and preference into a referendum on their personality.”
― Emma Cline, The Guest

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