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The Secret History

by Donna Tartt

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“Love is visible—it paints the air between two people a different color, and everyone can see it.”
― Alison Espach, The Wedding People

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“but the walls of a person’s heart are not impregnable, not if they have ever known love.”
― Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping

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“May your sky always be clear, may your dear smile always be bright and happy, and may you be for ever blessed for that moment of bliss and happiness which you gave to another lonely and grateful heart. Isn't such a moment sufficient for the whole of one's life?”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, White Nights

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“...but all that really means is that I love my life, and I'm really excited to have it back again, excited to feel that its going to continue, that new things will keep happening, that nothing is over yet.”
― Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You

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“I take a longer look at the words on her headstone.
Brave, kind, loyal, sweet, loving, graceful, strong, thoughtful, funny, genuine, hopeful, playful, insightful, and on and on…
Was she, though? Was she any of those things? The words make me angry. I can’t look at them any longer.
Why do we romanticize the dead? Why can’t we be honest about them?”
― Jennette McCurdy, I'm Glad My Mom Died

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