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“You know,' I answered, with some emotion, for I had never seen so much of Holmes' heart before, 'that it is my greatest joy and privilege to help you.”
― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, His Last Bow

“And if beauty is terror,” said Julian, “then what is desire? We think we have many desires, but in fact we have only one. What is it?”
“To live,” said Camilla.
“To live forever,” said Bunny, chin cupped in palm.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

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

“In a shilling-spin of an instant I realised that he wasn’t a crude work but the ruin of something fine.”
― Natasha Pulley, The Bedlam Stacks