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Hilary Mantel
“Look, he says: once you have exhausted the process of negotiation and compromise, once you have fixed on the destruction of an enemy, that destruction must be swift and it must be perfect. Before you even glance in his direction, you should have his name on a warrant, the ports blocked, his wife and friends bought, his heir under your protection, his money in your strong room and his dog running to your whistle. Before he wakes in the morning, you should have the axe in your hand.”
Hilary Mantel, Bring Up the Bodies

Ian McEwan
“Our desires permeate our perceptions”
Ian McEwan, Black Dogs

Ocean Vuong
“I am thinking of beauty again, how some things are hunted because we have deemed them beautiful. If, relative to the history of our planet, an individual life is so short, a blink, as they say, then to be gorgeous, even from the day you're born to the day you die, is to be gorgeous only briefly.”
Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

J.R.R. Tolkien
“Dear-bought those songs shall be accounted, and yet shall be well-bought. For the price could be no other”
JRR Tolkien

Susanna Clarke
“When night fell, I listened to the Songs that the Moon and Stars were singing and I sang with them”
Susanna Clarke, Piranesi

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