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“Some people accept that they will never be free of their anxiety, they just learn to carry it. She tried to be one of them. She told herself that was why you should always be nice to other people, even idiots, because you never know how heavy their burden is.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“We don't have a plan, we just do our best to get through the day, because there'll be another one coming along tomorrow.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“Did you know people get rich off of sadness? I want to meet the millionaire of American sadness. I want to look him in the eye, shake his hand, and say, 'it's been an honor to serve my country.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“Were you aware that emotional tears have a higher protein concentration than tears that comes from irritation? I read online that the higher protein content makes them fall down your cheeks more slowly -- increasing the chance they'll be seen by people and attract help. Your body is literally built for community. Tears attract people. So cry away!”
― Kirsty Greenwood, The Love of My Afterlife

“The suddenness and finality of November evenings.”
― Sally Rooney, Intermezzo

“They continue to be surprised at African American achievement even though it’s all around us. Even though it’s been there, holding up society at every level.”
― Charmaine Wilkerson, Good Dirt

“Confidence is showing up, and trying, and not giving up because deep in your heart you know who you are and what you’re capable of.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Deep End

“It’s the kind of love that’s so vast and so willing that it can be molded and shaped. It’s a love that can bend. If that’s tragic, wouldn’t you call that tragically beautiful?”
― Myah Ariel, No Ordinary Love

“What matters isn't what people say but what you like and find joy in. I hope you focus less on how you look to other people and more on fulfilling your true desires.”
― Baek Se-hee, I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki

“But books are different. I often look for books that are like medicine, that fit my situation and my thoughts, and I read them over and over again until the pages are tattered, underlining everything and still the book will have something to give me. Books never tire of me. And in time they present a solution, quietly waiting until I am fully healed. That's one of the nicest things about books.”
― Baek Se-hee, I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki

“I’m sad, but I’m alive, and living through it. That is my solace and my joy.”
― Baek Se-hee, I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki

“I wonder about others like me, who seem totally fine on the outside but are rotting on the inside, where the rot is this vague state of being not-fine and not-devastated at the same time.”
― Baek Se-hee, I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki

“I hope you will listen to a certain overlooked and different voice within you. Because the human heart, even when it wants to die, quite often wants at the same time to eat some tteokbokki, too.”
― Baek Se-hee, I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki

“To right every wrong you come across in the world would be an impossible endeavor for any one person. You're just one person, and you're putting too much of the weight of the world on yourself.”
― Baek Se-hee, I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki