This tag is hard bc it’s just so damn hard

This tag is hard bc it’s just so damn hard to choose but here are my hesitantly chosen #fragmentsfromliterature
thanks for the tag @book_stings
my answer is too long so half of the caption is in the comments

– lives in my heart:
“I disapprove of what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it”
Evelyn Beatrice Hall explaining Voltaire’s belief system in The Friends of Voltaire, 1906

“Don’t ignore half of me so you can fit me into a box”
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, 2017

“We’re purely beneficiaries of chance… that we could find each other in the vastness of space and the immensity of time… that pure chance could be so generous, it is my joy to share a planet and an epoch with Annie”
Some of it mentioned as a dedication in Cosmos (2002) by Carl Sagan, and the rest filled in by Ann Druyan after his death

“It is better to let 10 guilty men go free than to convict one innocent man”
William Blackstone, jurist, 1769

“There’s no money in it, but you knew that when you started on this path. You will do it because you know that knowledge is beautiful, and because if only a hundred people share your passion, that is enough”
Ben Goldacre in the last line of Bad Science, 2008

– irretrievably broke me:
“There was something inscrutable about the collective loss of reason: if enough eyes experienced the same hallucination, it turned into a truth, if enough people laughed at the same misery, it became a funny little joke”
Three Daughters of Eve by Elif Shafak, 2016

“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living”
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Johnathan Safran Foer, 2006

“Imagining what might happen if ones circumstances were different was the only sure route to madness”
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles, 2019

“What happens to the people that love each other? I suppose they have whatever they have, and they are more fortunate than others. Then one of them gets the emptiness forever”
Across the River and Into the Trees by Hemingway, 1998

“You, dead, are so much better than anyone else alive”
Richard Feynman to wife in a letter after she passed, 1946
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