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“It’s lonely,” she replied. “But a good kind of lonely. The kind that makes you stronger. I lived a solitary life here for years. That is how I’ve emerged as I am now. All great faiths are born in the desert.”
― J.S. Latshaw, A Gallery of Mothers

“If Adam were honest with himself, which he rarely was, he’d come to terms with the fact that beyond his work and the view, he was floundering a bit. His plan had been to take the insurance money, leave his old life behind, and start completely over somewhere new. A place where memories didn’t lurk around every corner.
He hadn’t figured on the memories coming along with him.”
― Kirsten Fullmer

“Mr. Park’s home, which doubled as his office, was small, dark, and stank of old man. Although Mr. Park was not that old, he was cheap and unmarried. And that smell, and the smell of old man, are easily confused.”
― J.K. Franko

“لكي تعيش عليك أن تعاني ، ولكي تبقى عليك أن تجد معنى للمعاناة. وإذا كان هناك هدف في الحياة، فإنه يوجد بالتالي هدف في المعاناة وفي الموت.”
― فيكتور إيميل فرانكل, Man's Search for Meaning

“The five following are the principal circumstances which, (...), make up for a small pecuniary gain
in some employments, and counterbalance a great one in others. First, the agreeableness or disagreeableness of the employments themselves; secondly, the easiness and cheapness, or the difficulty and expense of learning them; thirdly, the constancy or inconstancy of employment in them; fourthly, the small or great trust which must be reposed in those who exercise them; and, fifthly, the probability or improbability of success in them.”
― Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

“He responded a few minutes later.

Okay.

I wrote back.

Okay.

He responded:

Oh, my God, stop flirting with me!”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Lastly, she pictured to herself how this same little sister of hers would, in the after-time, be herself a grown woman; and how she would keep, through all her riper years, the simple and loving heart of her childhood: and how she would gather about her other little children, and make their eyes bright and eager with many a strange tale, perhaps even with the dream of Wonderland of long ago: and how she would feel with all their simple sorrows, and find a pleasure in all their simple joys, remembering her own child-life, and the happy summer days.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

“You see, control can never be a means to any practical end...It can never be a means to anything but more control...like junk..”
― William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch: The Restored Text

“Just follow that one road the whole time!... I hope they don't get lost, I'm so bad at giving directions..”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West