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“When you love someone, it's like building a library and filling the shelves. It doesn't matter how many years it's been since Austen wrote Emma or Fitzgerald wrote This Side of Paradise. We can still pull them from the bookcases and dive back into the words, the same as they day they were written. All the years and memories are still right there, cataloged inside us.”
― Rachel Moore, The Library of Shadows

“Do you love her?"
"I exist for her.”
― Tessa Bailey, Dream Girl Drama

“Marra carried the knowledge that her sister hated her snugged up under her ribs. It did not touch her heart, but it seemed to fill her lungs, and sometimes when she tried to take a deep breath, it caught on her sister's words and left her breathless.”
― T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone

“New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. —JOHN LOCKE”
― Lindsey Fitzharris, The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine