• "though she be but little she is fierce."
    • (act 3, scene 2 - a midsummer night's dream)
  • "we know what we are, but know not what we may be."
    • (act 4, scene 5 - hamlet)
  • "doubt thou the stars are fire; doubt that the sun doth move; doubt truth to be a liar; but never doubt i love."
    • (act 2, scene 2 - hamlet)
  • "we are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
    • (act 3 - lady windermere's fan)
  • "i may have lost my heart, but not my self-control."
    • (emma - jane austen)
  • "many times i have laid down and longed for death. no future generation will ever know what this was like. they will never understand. when it is over we will go quietly among them living and we will not tell them. we will talk and step and go about our business like human beings. we will seal what we have seen in the silence of our hearts and no words will reach us."
    • (birdsong - sebastian faulks)
  • "for you, a thousand times over."
    • (the kite runner - khaled hosseini)
  • "we were the people who were not in the papers. we lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. it gave us more freedom. we lived in the gaps between the stories."
    • (the handmaid's tale - margaret atwood)
  • "the books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame."
    • (the picture of dorian gray - oscar wilde)
  • "to other people, it sometimes seems like nothing at all. you are walking around with your head on fire and no one can see the flames."
    • (reasons to stay alive - matt haig)
  • "when a man dies, an unknown world passes away."
    • (night flight - antoine de saint-exupéry)
  • "i should like to write you the kind of words that burn the paper they are written on."
    • (gaudy night - dorothy l. sayers)
  • "memories warm you up from the inside. but they also tear you apart."
    • (kafka on the shore - haruki murakami)
  • "there is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity; but which kindles up, and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity."
    • (the sketch book - washington irving)
  • "she was not fragile like a flower, she was fragile like a bomb."
    • (anon.)
  • “i can see he's not in your good books,' said the messenger. 'no, and if he were i would burn my library.”
    • (act 1, scene 1 - much ado about nothing)
  • "your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing."
    • (crime & punishment - fyodor dostoevsky)
  • "you have never been poor, and never known what ambition is."
    • (an ideal husband - oscar wilde)
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