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“What is most vile and despicable about money is that it even confers talent. And it will do so until the end of the world.”

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Fyodor Dostoevsky

A renowned Russian novelist and a pioneer of psychological novels. His works deeply reveal the complexity of human nature and the injustice of society, having a profound impact on literature worldwide. more

“Mia and I had been together for more than two years, and yes, it was a high school romance, but it was still the kind of romance where I thought we were trying to find a way to make it forever, the kind that, had we met five years later and had she not been some cello prodigy and had I not been in a band on the rise - or had our lives not been ripped apart by all this -I was pretty sure it would've been.”

Way Trying Years Kind Stills Two School Together Romance Forever Five Our Lives Mets Band High School Five Years Two Years Ripped Prodigies Mia

Author:Gayle Forman

“Obey the muse, Liz said. She's a fickle mistress.”

Said Muse Mistress Fickle Liz

Book:Where She Went

Source: Where She Went

“One day she told me that they'd decided that my gender was divvied into two neat piles-Men and Guys. Basically, all the saints of the world: Men. The jerks, the players, the wet T-shirt contest aficionados? They were Guys.”

Men World Two Guy Player One Day Decided Saint Gender Shirts Wet Contests T Shirt Neat Jerk

Book:Where She Went

Source: Where She Went

“The whole night had been a mistake. It's not going to let me rewind. Or unmake the mistakes I've made.Or the promises I've mad. Or have her back. Or have me back.”

Made Whole Night Mistake Promise Let Me Mad Rewind

Author:Gayle Forman

“So let's hear another one of your irrational fears. Mia grasped me by the arms and pulled herself in to my chest, like she was burrowing her body into mine. "I'm scared of losing you," she said in the faintest of voices." I pushed her away so I could see her face and kissed the top of her forehead. "I said 'irrational' fears. Because that's not gonna happen.”

Said Body Happens Faces Voice Mines Arms Losing Scared Chests Irrational Foreheads Mia Irrational Fear Burrowing

Book:Where She Went

Source: Where She Went

“We were both music-obsessed, each in our own way. If we didn't entirely understand the other person's obsession, it didn't matter, because we understood our own.”

Ifs Way Persons Matter Understood Obsession Obsessed

Book:Where She Went

Source: Where She Went

“And our lips. There isn't enough skin, enough spit, enough time, for the lost years that our lips are trying to make up for as they find each other. We kiss. The electric current switches to high. The lights throughout all of Brooklyn must be surging.”

Trying Years Enough Light Lost Kissing Skins Lips Currents Electric Brooklyn Spit Enough Time Electric Current Lost Years

Book:Where She Went

Source: Where She Went

“How can it be so unclear to her when it's like the fingers on my hand to me?”

Hands Fingers Unclear

Book:Where She Went

Source: Where She Went

“As we have seen there is some kind of continuity in any case since every experience affects for better or worse the attitudes which help decide the quality of further experiences, by setting up certain preference and aversion, and making it easier or harder to act for this or that end.”

Kind Ends Helping Certain Attitude Quality Cases Easier Harder Setting Settings Preference Continuity Aversion

Book:The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1938-1939

Source: The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1938-1939

“There's not even real *popularity* at my school." "That," Coli said emphatically, "is a sentence that has only ever been spoken by popular people.”

People Said Real School Sentences Popularity

Author:John Green

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