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december ༉‧₊˚✧

• catiline ▸ ben jonson

— "i will not burn without my funeral pile."

• the fall ▸ albert camus

— "the whole universe then began to laugh at me."

• caligula ▸ albert camus

— "to history, caligula! go down to history!"

• the atomic city girls ▸ janet beard

— "they drank their cokes in silence."

november ༉‧₊˚✧

• autobiography of red ▸ anne carson

— "i once loved you, now i don't know you at all."

• medea ▸ euripides

— "passion is the root of all our sin, and all our suffering."

• electra ▸ euripides

— "o loyal love, do you go so soon?"

• the american heiress ▸ daisy goodwin

— "i have always thought that the new world would one day prevail."

october ༉‧₊˚✧

• the frogs ▸ aristophanes

— "spirits of the darkness, speed him on his way."

• hecuba ▸ euripides

— "what woman on this earth was ever cursed like this?"

• the aeneid ▸ virgil

— "she fell and left her life among the stars."

september ༉‧₊˚✧

• prometheus bound ▸ aeschylus

— "i cry for you prometheus. your fate is a sad one."

• the bell jar ▸ sylvia plath

— "i felt very still and very empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel..."

• the slight edge ▸ jeff olson

— "successful people understand the slight edge, and they put it to work for them."

• the idiot ▸ elif batuman

— "what had men ever done, to deserve so much beauty and grace?"

• antigonick ▸ sophocles & anne carson

— "unwept unwed unloved i go."

• the secret history ▸ donna tartt

— "...there is a divinity in our midst..."

august ༉‧₊˚✧

• the glass menagerie ▸ tennessee williams

— "she lives in a world of her own – a world of – little glass ornaments..."

july ༉‧₊˚✧

• the heart is a lonely hunter ▸ carson mccullers

— "i'm a stranger in a strange land."

• the girl on the train ▸ paula hawkins

— "it’s possible to miss what you’ve never had, to mourn for it."

• the two princesses of bamarre ▸ gail carson levine

— "loving her was the best part of me."

• as you like it ▸ william shakespeare

— "and there begins my sadness."

june ༉‧₊˚✧

• girl with a pearl earring ▸ tracy chevalier

— "i seemed to be waiting for something i did not think would ever happen."

• cosmic numbers: the numbers that define our universe ▸ james d. stein

— "if the universe does not end, all the good things might continue. or come again."

may ༉‧₊˚✧

• the memory keeper's daughter ▸ kim edwards

— "it seemed possible her life would always be serene, expanding into calm like a flower budding into air."

• the theory of everything ▸ stephen hawking

— "what would it mean if we actually did discover the ultimate theory of the universe?"

april ༉‧₊˚✧

• lovely, raspberry ▸ aaron belz

— "and to know, at last, that ones existence has meaning; has, not only meaning, but importance."

march ༉‧₊˚✧

• lincoln in the bardo ▸ george saunders

— "love, love, i know what you are."

• astrophysics for people in a hurry ▸ neil degrasse tyson

— "the cosmic perspective is humble."

• no country for old men ▸ cormac mccarthy

— "they say the eyes are the windows to the soul."

• weetzie bat ▸ francesca lia block

— "you're in my blood."

• frog and toad are friends ▸ arnold lobel

— "dear toad, i am glad that you are my best friend. your best friend, frog."

february ༉‧₊˚✧

• call me by your name ▸ andré aciman

— "all that remains is dream making and strange remembrance."

• your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live forever? ▸ dave eggers

— "i showed up two hundred years late for the life i was supposed to live."

• the virgin suicides ▸ jeffrey eugenides

— "when she jumped, she probably thought she'd fly."

• teaching my mother how to give birth ▸ warsan shire

— "she was splintered wood and sea water."

• when God is gone, everything is holy ▸ chet raymo

— "let each man hope and believe what he can."

january ༉‧₊˚✧

• the plague ▸ albert camus

— "and yet she'd stayed; of course, one may often suffer a long time without knowing it."

• developing intuition ▸ shakti gawain

— "there is a universal, intelligent life force that exists within everyone and everything."

• a streetcar named desire ▸ tennessee williams

— "sometimes - there's God - so quickly!"

• the little girl who was too fond of matches ▸ gaétan soucy

— "and the first sun of any religion, if i'm not mistaken, is always a corpse that moves."

• gone girl ▸ gillian flynn

— "one should never marry a man who doesn't own a decent set of scissors. that would be my advice."

• all the pretty horses ▸ cormac mccarthy

— "between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting."

• dan leno and the limehouse golem ▸ peter ackroyd

— "when it is all over, we shall hold hands and begin again from the beginning."

• child of god ▸ cormac mccarthy

— "a malign star kept him."