#literally been thinking about this all morning shdjdbdjdn

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Top 5 or 10 favourite book extract/quotes! Or skamverse quotes, too!

Top 5 quotes/extracts is a CHALLENGE but I'm going to try my best

In no particular order:

1. Persuasion by Jane Austen - Captain Wentworth's love letter (the whole thing is just peak literary romance but to keep this post short I'll share a brief quote

You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight years and a half ago. Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant.

2. A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara - honestly the entire book, I had a STRUGGLE picking one quote, but here is one that hits me where it hurts every time:

And so I try to be kind to everyone I see, and in everything I see, I see him.

3. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz

The summer sun was not meant for boys like me. Boys like me belonged to the rain.

4. The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman

"Nothing's ever the same," she said. "Be it a second later or a hundred years. It's always churning and roiling. And people change as much as oceans."

5. Am I allowed to provide a whole poem for this prompt? Idk I'm doing it anyway. Wild Geese by Mary Oliver:

And for fun here are some skamverse quotes I love off the top of my head (can't promise I'll remember everything tho rip)

1. The entire minutt for minutt speech from og skam s3 - "in this minute we'll kiss"

2. "I'm a boy. I just have to try a little harder." -david, druck s3

3. "I'm just like mom" -nora, druck s5 (more so bc I just think this is a fucking brilliant climax of the season)

4. "You are good." -fatou, druck s6 (yeah I know my ass is trash what else is new)

5. "Hate doesn't come from religion; it comes from fear." -sana, skam s3

Ask my top 5/10 anything!