Lucy

“There is a fatality about all physical and intellectual distinction, the sort of fatality that seems to dog through history the faltering steps of kings. It is better not to be different from one’s fellows. The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit quietly and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat. They live as we all should live, undisturbed, indifferent, and without disquiet. They neither bring ruin upon others nor ever receive it from alien hands. Your rank and wealth, Harry; my brains, such as they are, my fame, whatever it may be worth; Dorian Gray’s good looks; we will all suffer for what the gods have given us, suffer terribly.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Uncensored Picture of Dorian Gray

“Does anyone believe in that? That souls can transmigrate?’
‘I do,’ says George. ‘I think souls can be in books, too.”
― Cath Crowley, Words in Deep Blue

“I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their characters, and my enemies for their brains.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Most of all, I hate you because I think of you. Often. It's disgusting, and I can't stop.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince