- "Even if Lady Macbeth could have removed that damned spot, wouldn’t her hands have been red from all the scrubbing?"
- Everything Is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer
- "When love flies it is remembered not as love but as something else."
- Maurice, E.M. Forster
- "People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I've learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one's reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one's master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person's view requires to be faked. And if one gains the immediate purpose of the lie--the price one pays is the destruction of that which the gain was intended to serve. The man who lies to the world, is the world's slave from then on."
- Hank Rearden, Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
- "Never touch your idols. The gilding will stick to your fingers."
- Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
- "It's not that I don't believe in contemporary literature, but I don't want to waste valuable time reading any book that has not had the baptism of time. Life is too short."
- Nagasawa, Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami
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