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“Then something altogether hideous happened. The thought was forced on me that no matter how coolly or sensibly or gracefully I might one day to learn to live my life, I would always at best be a visitor in a garden of enamel urinals and bedpans, with a sightless, wooden dummy-deity standing by in a marked-down rupture truss.”
― J.D. Salinger, De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period

“Oh, my darling, why is it that love makes me hate the world? It’s supposed to have quite the opposite effect. I feel as though all mankind, and God, too, were in a conspiracy against us.”
“They are, they are.”
“But we’ve got our happiness in spite of them; here and now, we’ve taken possession of it. They can’t hurt us, can they?”
“Not tonight; not now.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

“He loved not the Christ but himself and the thrill of keeping people in line. He liked wearing his habit, and he liked the preposterous authority that his position granted him. Since his assignment in Lapvona, he had not given any real sermons. He simply translated Villiam's rule into language that sounded vaguely religious.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona

“Right after he spoke, Blue threw her arms tightly around his neck. Right after he spoke, she pressed her face into the side of his. Right after he spoke, she held him like a shouted word. Love, love, love.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven King