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“He is half of my soul, as the poets say.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything - what a waste!”
― Andre Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“I'm not a religious person but I do sometimes think God made you for me.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.”
― Zora Neale Hurston

“I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.”
― Vladimir Nabokov