Jasmine

“Still, something did not seem right, and Robin could tell from Victoire’s and Ramy’s faces that they thought so too. It took him a moment to realize what it was that grated on him, and when he did, it would bother him constantly, now and thereafter; it would seem a great paradox, the fact that after everything they had told Letty, all the pain they had shared, she was the one who needed comfort.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

“To people accustomed to reason about the forms in which their religious feeling has incorporated itself, it is difficult to enter into that simple, untaught state of mind in which the form and the feeling have never been severed by an act of reflection,,,but to him this would have been an effort of independent thought such as he had never known;”
― George Eliot, Silas Marner

“Even in ruin, there is beauty.”
― Kimber Silver

“He was never going to notice her.”
― Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry