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“We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion.” Dead Poets Society (1989)

“There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.” Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

“And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.” Stephen Chbosky - The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Come, come! I'm sick to death of this particular self. I want another.” Virginia Woolf - Orlando

“They were blinded as the face of a mirror is breathed upon.” Dennis Tedlock - Breath on the Mirror: Mythic Voices and Visions of the Living Maya

“I thought once that gods are the opposite of death, but I see now they are more dead than anything, for they are unchanging, and can hold nothing in their hands.” Madeline Miller - Circe

“I had desired it with an ardour that far exceeded moderation; but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart.” Mary Shelley - Frankenstein

“When I looked around I saw and heard of none like me. Was I, then, a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled and whom all men disowned?” Mary Shelley - Frankenstein

“I never got used to the way the horizon there could just erase itself and leave you marooned, adrift, in an incomplete dreamscape that was like a sketch for the world you.” Donna Tartt - The Secret History

“Do you reflect that all those words will be branded on my memory, and eating deeper eternally after you have left me? You know you lie to say I have killed you: and, Catherine, you know that could as soon forget you as my existence! Is it not sufficient for your infernal selfishness, that while you are at peace I shall writhe in torments of hell?” Emily Brontë - Wuthering Heights

“But perhaps no parent can truly see their child. When we look we see only the mirror of our own faults.” Mabeline Miller - Circe

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“He made me think of home — perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.” James Baldwin - Giovanni's Room

Madeline Miller - The Song of Achilles

“Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, a potting shed, a wall where peaches ripen, than to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.” Virginia Woolf - Orlando

Dead Poets Society (1989)