The Pleasure of the Text by Roland Barthes

"emotion is even, perhaps, the slyest of losses."

A Theory of Semiotics by Umberto Eco

"Semiotics is in principle the discipline studying everything which can be used in order to lie. If something cannot be used to tell a lie, conversely it cannot be used to tell the truth: it cannot in fact be used 'to tell' at all."

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

"It is hard to forgive, and to look at those eyes, and feel those wasted hands."

"and wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth."