“My past is everything I failed to be.”

― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

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“I do not think of you: you are ever before my soul!”

― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

“So much has been done, exclaimed the soul of Frankenstein—more, far more, will I achieve; treading in the steps already marked, I will pioneer a new way, explore unknown powers, and unfold to the world the deepest mysteries of creation.”

― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“Civilisation had been restored to the Island. But now the political fabric which nurtured it was about to be overthrown. Hitherto strong men armed had kept the house. Now a child, a weakling, a vacillator, a faithless, feckless creature,...”

― Winston Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples

“It's hard to hate my prep team. They're such total idiots.”

― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits.”

― G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

“When any civilization is dust and ashes . . . art is all that’s left over.”

― Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake

“Isabel’s written in a foreign tongue. I can’t make her out.”

― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

“my drops of tears I'll turn to sparks of fire.”

― William Shakespeare, Henry VIII

“In many cases when a reader puts a story aside because it 'got boring,' the boredom arose because the writer grew enchanted with his powers of description and lost sight of his priority, which is to keep the ball rolling.”

― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel?”

― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

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