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“He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God. So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star. Then he kissed her. At his lips’ touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete.”The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
“He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.”Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
“I can’t sleep, I can’t eat, I can’t do anything but think about him. At night I dream of him, all day I wait to see him, and when I do see him my heart turns over and I think I will faint with desire.”The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
“You are sunlight through a window, which I stand in, warmed. My darling.”The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton
“Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight! For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night.”Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
“He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God. So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star. Then he kissed her. At his lips’ touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete.”The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
“He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.”Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
“I can’t sleep, I can’t eat, I can’t do anything but think about him. At night I dream of him, all day I wait to see him, and when I do see him my heart turns over and I think I will faint with desire.”The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
“You are sunlight through a window, which I stand in, warmed. My darling.”The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton
“Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight! For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night.”Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Edgar Allan Poe, (born January 19, 1809, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.—died October 7, 1849, Baltimore, Maryland), American short-story writer, poet, critic, and editor who is famous for his cultivation of mystery and the macabre
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Jane Austen, (born December 16, 1775, Steventon, Hampshire, England—died July 18, 1817, Winchester, Hampshire), English writer who first gave the novel its distinctly modern character through her treatment of ordinary people in everyday life.