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Madeline Miller
“He is half of my soul, as the poets say.”
Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

George Eliot
“People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are.”
George Eliot, Middlemarch

Nicole Krauss
“But we didn’t invent the idea of a single God; we only wrote a story of our struggle to remain true to Him and in doing so we invented ourselves. We gave ourselves a past and inscribed ourselves into the future.”
Nicole Krauss, Forest Dark

Donna Tartt
“It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.”
Donna Tartt, The Secret History

Nicole Krauss
“And yet isn’t it true of all of us? That there are things we feel to be at the heart of our nature that are not borne out by the evidence around us, and so, to protect our delicate sense of integrity, we elect, however unconsciously, to see the world other than the way it really is? And sometimes it leads to transcendence, and sometimes it leads to the unconscionable.”
Nicole Krauss, Forest Dark

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