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Interesting book quotes as I stumble upon them.

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It’s so hard, as a child, to know whether your parents are changing, or whether you’re just becoming aware of who they have always been.

Laura Brooke Robson Love Is an Algorithm

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Danny wondered if it would ever go away: the bottomless pit within him that begged to be filled with unequivocal evidence of love.

Laura Brooke Robson, Love Is an Algorithm

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We lead strange lives, chasing our dreams around from place to place.

Erin Morgenstern The Night Circus

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He doesn't say what he is thinking, which is that his church is held-breath story listening and late-night-concert ear-ringing rapture and perfect-boss fight-button pressing. That his religion is buried in the silence of freshly fallen snow, in a carefully crafted cocktail, in between the pages of a book somewhere after the beginning but before the ending.

Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

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But I didn’t care, it could have been a foxhole in the Somme being shelled by the Germans and all that mattered was her next to me in the dark, her arm beside mine.

Donna Tartt The Goldfinch

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You can never love someone as much as you can miss them.

John Green An Abundance of Katherines

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I have tried to let you go and I cannot. I cannot stop thinking of you. I cannot stop dreaming about you. Do you not feel the same for me?

Erin Morgenstern The Night Circus

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And the flavor of Pippa's kiss-bittersweet and strange-stayed with me all the way back uptown, swaying and sleepy as I sailed home on the bus, melting with sorrow and loveliness, a starry ache that lifted me above the windswept city like a kite; my head in the rainclouds, my heart in the sky.

Donna Tartt The Goldfinch

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It was a secret time and place, you next to me, untraceable and out of this world.

Daniel Handler Why We Broke Up

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I’d ruin any day, all my days, for those long nights with you, and I did.

Daniel Handler Why We Broke Up

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I started making plans, thinking we would get that far.

Daniel Handler Why We Broke Up

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Either you have the feeling or you don't.

Daniel Handler Why We Broke Up

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I was stupid, the official descriptive phrase for happy.

Daniel Handler Why We Broke Up

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On the nights when I woke strangled with fear there he was, catching me when I started up terrified from the bed, pulling me back down in the covers beside him.

- Donna Tartt The Goldfinch

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Each person feels pain in his own way, each has his own scars.

Haruki Murakami Kafka on the Shore

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Chance encounters are what keep us going.

Haruki Murakami Kafka on the Shore

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How confusing to live in the shadow of a shadow.

Gillian Flynn Sharp Objects