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“This is why dreams can be such dangerous things: they smolder on like a fire does, and sometimes they consume us completely.”
- Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

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"What should I do about the wild and the tame? The wild heart that wants to be free, and the tame heart that wants to come home. I want to be held. I don’t want you to come too close. I want you to scoop me up and bring me home at nights. I don’t want to tell you where I am. I want to keep a place among the rocks where no one can find me. I want to be with you."

- Jeanette Winterson

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“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.”
- Victor Hugo

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“Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering”
- Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

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"She loved with so much the more passion as she loved with ignorance. She did not know whether it were good or evil, beneficent or dangerous, necessary or accidental, eternal or transitory, permitted or prohibited: she loved."
- Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

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"I had jumped off the edge, and then, at the very last moment, something reached out and caught me midair. That something is what I define as love. It is the one thing that can stop a man from falling, powerful enough to negate the laws of gravity."
- Paul Auster, Moon Palace

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"The pearls weren’t really white, they were a warm oyster beige, with little knots in between so if they broke, you only lost one. I wished my life could be like that, knotted up so that even if something broke, the whole thing wouldn’t come apart."
- Janet Fitch, White Oleander

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"When they finished laughing they were on their way to being not just friends, but the dearest of friends, the sort of friends whose lives are shaped by the friendship."
- Robin McKinley, Spindle's End

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"There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love."

- Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

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"I have crossed over to a place where I never thought I’d be. I am someone I would have never imagined. A secret. A dream. I am this, body and soul. Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am."

- Alice Hoffman

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"One day I would have all the books in the world, shelves and shelves of them. I would live my life in a tower of books. I would read all day long and eat peaches. And if any young knights in armor dared to come calling on their white charges and plead with me to let down my hair, I would pelt them with peach pits until they went home."

- Jacqueline Kelly, The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate

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"It is dark and you are near the edge of a cliff, but you're moving slowly, not sure which direction you're heading in. Your steps are tentative but they are still blind in the night. You don't realize how close you are to the edge, how the soft earth could give away, how you could just slip a bit and suddenly plunge into the dark."

- Harlen Coben, Hold Tight