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#1

“Life offers up these moments of joy despite everything,”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

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“It was because she was listening so closely that she knew the exact moment when Kaz Brekker, Dirtyhands, the bastard of the Barrel and deadliest boy in Ketterdam, fainted.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

tags: inej-ghafa, kaz-brekker

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#3

“A hundred suspicions don't make a proof.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

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#3

“Many boys will bring you flowers. But someday you'll meet a boy who will learn your favorite flower, your favorite song, your favorite sweet. And even if he is too poor to give you any of them, it won't matter because he will have taken the time to know you as no one else does. Only that boy earns your heart.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

tags: leigh-bardugo, six-of-crows

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#4

“I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each should stand guard over the solitude of the other.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

tags: bonds, friendship, solitude

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#5

“We have not touched the stars,
nor are we forgiven, which brings us back
to the hero’s shoulders and the gentleness that comes,
not from the absence of violence, but despite
the abundance of it.”
― Richard Siken, Crush

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#6

“Sorry about the blood in your mouth. I wish it was mine.

I couldn't get the boy to kill me, but I wore his jacket for the longest time.”
― Richard Siken, Crush

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#7

“If you love me, Henry, you don’t love me in a way I understand.”
― Richard Siken, Crush

tags: love, poetry

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#8

“I sleep. I dream. I make up things that I would never say. I say them very quietly.”
― Richard Siken

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#9

“You said I killed you-haunt me, then! [...] Be with me always-take any form-drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!”
― Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

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#10

“The heart is an arrow. It demands aim to land true.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

tags: arrow, heart, inej, romance, suli-poverb

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#11

“Marianne had the sense that her real life was happening somewhere very far away, happening without her, and she didn't know if she would ever find out where it was or become part of it.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

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#12

“You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at a picture for a second and think of it all your life.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

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#13

“Who was it that said that coincidence was just God’s way of remaining anonymous?”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

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#14

“I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

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#16

“If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

tags: fiction, humor

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#17

“A choice of pains. That's what living was all about.”
― Audre Lorde, Zami: A New Spelling of My Name

tags: abortion, decisions, gender, sad, struggle, women

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#18

“It seemed to me that winter was the time for love, not spring. In winter the habitable world was so much contracted; out of that little shut-in space we lived in, fantastic hopes might bloom. But spring revealed the ordinary geography of the place; the long, brown roads, the old cracked sidewalks underfoot, all the tree branches broken off in winter storms, that had to be cleared out of the yards. Spring revealed distances, exactly as they were.”
― Alice Munro, Lives of Girls and Women

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#19

“To be made of flesh was humiliation.”
― Alice Munro, Lives of Girls and Women

tags: body

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#20

“I have for the first time found what I can truly love–I have found you. You are my sympathy–my better self–my good angel–I am bound to you with a strong attachment. I think you good, gifted, lovely: a fervent, a solemn passion is conceived in my heart; it leans to you, draws you to my centre and spring of life, wrap my existence about you–and, kindling in pure, powerful flame, fuses you and me in one.”
― Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

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#21

“I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: character, empowerment, flaws, freedom, gender, ideal-woman, identity, image, independence, integrity, love, men, realism, romance, self-awareness, self-determination, women

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#22

“Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: adoration, fidelity, love

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#23

“She smiled then, her eyes red, her cheeks scattered with some kind of dust. It was a smile he thought he might die to earn again.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

tags: brekker, crooked-kingdom, ghafa, inej, inej-ghafa, kaz, kaz-brekker, leigh-bardugo, six-of-crows

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#24

“There are four questions of value in life... What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living "for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is same. Only love.”
― Lord Byron

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#25

“We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, "Oh, nothing!" Pride helps; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our hurts— not to hurt others.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

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#26

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

tags: character, libel, neighbor, people, prejudice, reputation, rumor, slander, truth

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#27

“We can learn from history, but we can also deceive ourselves when we selectively take evidence from the past to justify what we have already made up our minds to do.”
― Margaret MacMillan

tags: dangerous-games, history

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