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“But here’s the thing I’ve learned about leaving—you can’t really go back.”
― Megan Miranda, All the Missing Girls

“How quickly you might go from something to nothing.”
― Megan Miranda, All the Missing Girls

“You want to believe you're not the saddest person on Earth. That there's someone worse. Someone there with you. Someone suffering beside you through the unfathomable darkness.”
― Megan Miranda, All the Missing Girls

“Tomorrow I'd pick myself up. Tomorrow there would be no more crying. Tomorrow I'd remember that I had kept going.”
― Megan Miranda, All the Missing Girls

“Time can change relationships like the sea reshapes the sand.”
― Alice Feeney, Rock Paper Scissors

“Nostalgia is a dangerous drug, but I enjoy the sensation of happier memories flooding my mind.”
― Alice Feeney, Rock Paper Scissors

“But I have realized recently that words are just words, a series of letters, arranged in a certain order, most likely in the language we were assigned at birth. People are careless with their words nowadays. They throw them away in a text or a tweet, they write them, pretend to read them, twist them, misquote them, lie with, without, and about them. They steal them, then they give them away. Worst of all, they forget them. Words are only a value if we remember how to feel what they mean.”
― Alice Feeney, Rock Paper Scissors

“I've never known what it's like to have a real family, and I've always been better at collecting acquaintances than making friends. On the rare occasions when I feel like I have met someone I can trust, I hold on. Tight. But my judgement can be faulty. There are some people in my life I shouldn't have walked away from; I should have run.”
― Alice Feeney, Rock Paper Scissors

“It means sometimes life changes people, even us. We are both different versions of ourselves compared with who we were when we first met. Almost unrecognisable in some ways. But I love all the versions of you. And no matter how much we change, how I feel about you never will.”
― Alice Feeney, Rock Paper Scissors

“Word of the year:
monachopsis noun the subtle but persistent feeling of being out of place. Unable to recognize your intended habitat, never feeling as though you are at home.”
― Alice Feeney, Rock Paper Scissors

“Books can be mirrors for whoever holds them and people don't always like what they see.”
― Alice Feeney, Rock Paper Scissors

“This is the terrible thing about a tragedy. It isn’t with you every minute. You forget it, and then you remember it again. And you see it with a stark quality: This is what is required of you now, just to get along.”
― Laura Dave, The Last Thing He Told Me

“When she opened the book, the white pages were so bright against the shadows that filled the forest and the words they offered granted shelter and comfort. The letters were like footprints in the snow, a wide white landscape untouched by pain, unharmed by memories too dark to keep, too sweet to let go of.”
― Guillermo del Toro, Pan's Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the Faun

“That's what the books said, and didn't their tales feel so much truer than what adults pretended this world to be about? Only books talked about all the things adults didn't want you to ask about - Life. Death. Good and Evil. And what else truly mattered in life.”
― Guillermo del Toro, Pan's Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the Faun

“Sometimes even the healers are turned into butchers by the darkness of this world.”
― Guillermo del Toro, Pan's Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the Faun

“Death is a lover to be feared and there was only one way to overcome that fear - by being her executioner.”
― Guillermo del Toro, Pan's Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the Faun

“Sometimes we need to see what we feel so we can know about it.”
― Guillermo del Toro, Pan's Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the Faun

“Libraries don't keep secrets; they reveal them.”
― Guillermo del Toro, Pan's Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the Faun

“All the words of love would turn into weapons against the ones they were supposed to comfort.”
― Guillermo del Toro, Pan's Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the Faun

“No, vanity - that was his weakness: the urge to constantly prove to himself and to others that nothing and no one could withstand him and that his heart didn't know either fear nor pity. Liar. He was afraid of everything. Especially himself.”
― Guillermo del Toro, Pan's Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the Faun

“It's always just a few who know where to look and how to listen, that is true. But for the best stories, a few are just enough.”
― Guillermo del Toro, Pan's Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the Faun

“Somehow the sight of water has always rejuvenated me, especially when it flows rhythmically.”
― Kathy Reichs, Déjà Dead

“Ideas come easily to me, enacting them comes harder. I usually let things go. Perhaps it's an escape hatch, my way of allowing myself to double back and ease out the side door on a lot of my schemes. Irresolute about my social life, obsessive in my work.”
― Kathy Reichs, Déjà Dead

“I am a woman whose moods are influenced by the weather, my outlook rising and falling with the barometer.”
― Kathy Reichs, Déjà Dead

“Violent death allows no privacy. It plunders one's dignity as surely as it has taken one's life.”
― Kathy Reichs, Déjà Dead

“He seemed annoyed. Do cats feel such emotions? Perhaps I was projecting.”
― Kathy Reichs, Déjà Dead

“I remembered the warmth that would start in my gut and spread upward and outward, navigating a path through my body, lighting the fires of well-being along its course. The bonfires of control. Of vigor. Of invincibility. I could use that right now, I thought. Right. Who was I kidding? I wouldn't stop there. What were those stages? I'd move right on to bulletproof and then to invisible. Or was it the other way around? No matter. I'd carry it too far, and then the crash would come. the comfort would be short term, the price heavy.”
― Kathy Reichs, Déjà Dead

“After twenty-two years of adventuring, Viv had reached her limit of blood and mud and bullshit. An orc's life was strength and violence and a sudden sharp end - but she'd be damned if she'd let hers finish that way. It was time for something new.”
― Travis Baldree, Legends & Lattes

“She looked around. Her place. Not a temporary stop or a spot to sling her bedroll for one night. Hers.”
― Travis Baldree, Legends & Lattes

“It suddenly seemed that any faux pas or stumble here might follow and shame her forever, before she'd even properly settled down, irrational though the thought was.”
― Travis Baldree, Legends & Lattes