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“I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

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

“A kind of light spread out from her. And everything changed color. And the world opened out. And a day was good to awaken to. And there were no limits to anything. And the people of the world were good and handsome. And I was not afraid any more.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“Don't tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody."

- Holden Caulfield
The Catcher in the Rye”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye