Anna
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“Hell is in the here and now. So is heaven. Quit worrying about hell or dreaming about heaven, as they are both present inside this very moment. Every time we fall in love, we ascend to heaven. Every time we hate, envy, or fight someone, we tumble straight into the fires of hell.”
― The Forty Rules of Love
― The Forty Rules of Love
“She wondered whether there would ever come an hour in her life when she didn't think of him -- didn't speak to him in her head, didn't relive every moment they'd been together, didn't long for his voice and his hands and his love. She had never dreamed of what it would feel like to love someone so much; of all the things that had astonished her in her adventures, that was what astonished her the most. She thought the tenderness it left in her heart was like a bruise that would never go away, but she would cherish it forever.”
― His Dark Materials - The Trilogy: The Golden Compass / The Subtle Knife / The Amber Spyglass
― His Dark Materials - The Trilogy: The Golden Compass / The Subtle Knife / The Amber Spyglass
“Daytime sleep is like the sin of the flesh; the more you have the more you want, and yet you feel unhappy, sated and unsated at the same time.”
― The Name of the Rose
― The Name of the Rose
“Isn't connecting people to distant lands and culture one of the strengths of good literature?”
― The Forty Rules of Love
― The Forty Rules of Love
“The idea hovered and shimmered delicately, like a soap bubble, and she dared not even look at it directly in case it burst. But she was familiar with the way of ideas, and she let it shimmer, looking away, thinking about something else.”
― The Golden Compass
― The Golden Compass
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