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“Heartbreak is a loss. Divorce is a piece of paper.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“You can be sorry about something and not regret it,” Evelyn says.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“No one goes around throwing caution to the wind unless the wind is blowing their way.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“If you are intolerable, let me be the one to tolerate you,”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“You can choose choices but not outcomes.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“The life of a human, according to the Scottish philosopher David Hume, was of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“She wanted to have a purpose, something to give her a reason to exist.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“It's the thrill of leaping without being able to see the ground below you, right before you realise that's called falling.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“Charmers are charming, but that's all they are.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“Freedom is a pair of trousers and a buttoned coat. A man’s tunic and a tricorne hat. If only she had known. The darkness claimed he’d given her freedom, but really, there is no such thing for a woman, not in a world where they are bound up inside their clothes, and sealed inside their homes, a world where only men are given leave to roam.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“The darkness is no place to be alone.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“Time moves so fucking fast.
Blink, and you’re halfway through school, paralyzed by the idea that whatever you choose to do, it means choosing not to do a hundred other things”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“He assures you that you’ll find your calling, but that’s the whole problem, you’ve never felt called to any one thing. There is no violent push in one direction, but a softer nudge a hundred different ways, and now all of them feel out of reach.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“You warned me it was not safe. I do not think being frightened will help.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“Such patience mortals must have, I thought, to drag themselves through it hour after hour.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“Will you be here? For I have never known such a wondrous thing in all my life as you."
I had stood beside my father's light. I had held Aeetes in my arms, and my bed was heaped with thick-wooled blankets woven by immortal hands. But it was not until that moment that I think I had ever been warm.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“Sometimes you just jump and hope it's not a cliff.”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

“She sounds like she's vision-boarding his funeral.”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

“How was he supposed to know back then if we wanted to look like other guys or if he wanted other guys?”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

“Nobody needs to know how hard he's kicking underwater.”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

“I, on the other hand, was average in every imaginable way: not especially handsome, not especially talented, not especially good at anything but just good enough at everything that I could pick up whatever slack the others left.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“Here you will make many friends, and perhaps a few enemies. Do not let the latter prospect frighten you - if you haven't made any enemies in life, you've been living too safely.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“This is the sort of game where people get hurt.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“How has she been looking at me?"
"Like she's a shark and you're an oblivous fur seal.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“He's bigger than all of us."
"No, Oliver, idiot. He's bigger than each of us.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“Olive, Oliver?"
"You have it. If I did it would be cannibalism.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“We cracked up", I say, but the phrase feels wrong. It was not so simple, or as clean, as a piece of fractured glass. "But we didn't really shatter until we were all back together again.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“Anything can feel like punishment if it’s taught poorly.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“I think maybe he put his gun down when he realized that God had given him an unfair advantage over most living things.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird