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“Now it was rare to lose a parent or lose a child; and people wouldn’t discuss it, in case it invited bad luck in. In case it was tempting fate, or superstition. She thought of how many people wouldn’t talk about Hari’s speechlessness in case drawing attention to it would somehow visit it upon their own children.”
― Jenny Colgan, The Bookshop on the Shore

“struck her that these days that remorse was very thin on the ground. It seemed nobody had to be sorry any more for anything they did; instead they doubled down, were proud of it, never ever admitted to being in the wrong about anything.”
― Jenny Colgan, The Bookshop on the Shore

“I wasn’t there to compete with them. I was there to compete with what God made me capable of.”
― Jamie Kern Lima, Believe It

“You can’t fake authenticity.”
― Jamie Kern Lima, Believe It

“The popular kids always sat together, even if one of them had to squeeze in an extra chair rather than sit at a lesser table. It was Elizabeth’s strong suspicion that none of these lawyers had ever been anywhere close to the cool-kid table in high school. This was their big chance to right that wrong, and they weren’t going to let that chance pass them by this time around.”
― Laura Jamison, All the Right Mistakes

“Why does someone walk away from one life, and into another?”
― Mary Kay Andrews, Hissy Fit