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“The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.”
― Dante Alighieri

“This is the true measure of love: when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.”
― Ayn Rand

“It is easy to forget that in the main we die only seven times more slowly than our dogs.”
― Jim Harrison, The Road Home

“I’ve read that one out of twenty-four people is a sociopath, and if you ask me, the other twenty-three of you should be worried.”
― Lisa Scottoline, Every Fifteen Minutes

“You can keep company with despair, or you can choose a different companion.”
― William Kent Krueger, Purgatory Ridge

“I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished.… The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Four Winds

“It wasn’t the fear that mattered in life. It was the choices made when you were afraid. You were brave because of your fear, not in spite of it.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Four Winds

“if a man does not master his circumstances then he is bound to be mastered by them.”
― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow

“But imagining what might happen if one’s circumstances were different was the only sure route to madness.”
― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow

“A purpose, I have learned, is rarely found, but revealed. Only when I do not search does the purpose become clear.”
― Robert Dugoni, The World Played Chess

“My days had not felt so expansive since that early summer in the mountain hut when I first learned to trust the hours instead of fill them.”
― Shelley Read, Go as a River

“Which is what we all want from art, isn’t it? When someone pins down something that feels like it lives inside us? Takes a piece of your heart out and shows it to you? It’s like they are introducing you to a part of yourself.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“Days are endless and the weeks fly by.”
― Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

“You’re not alone, and you’re not the one in charge,” Mother said gently. “Ask for help when you need it, and give help when you can. I think that is how we serve God—and each other and ourselves—in times as dark as these.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

“Memory is a wicked thing that warps and twists. But paper and ink receive the truth without emotion, and they read it back without partiality.”
― Ariel Lawhon, The Frozen River

“The ugliest truth is better than the prettiest lie.”
― Harlan Coben, The Match

“to make yourself numb, to not let yourself feel or experience anything remotely connected to pleasure. It helps really. It kept me alive.”
― Harlan Coben, I Will Find You

“To a human who listens, knowledge is given.”
― William Kent Krueger, Desolation Mountain

“lie often enough, eventually the public is going to accept it as truth.”
― William Kent Krueger, Desolation Mountain

“They understand that if you repeat a lie often enough, eventually the public is going to accept it as truth.”
― William Kent Krueger, Desolation Mountain

“Pa always believed a marriage in the fall would bring a union of rebirth that’d bud slow, grow steady and strong from the dying season, while a marriage made in the hot summer would be short-lived and quick to whither.”
― Kim Michele Richardson, The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek

“learn from an early age to deal with uncomfortable truths by avoiding them, or by pretending better truths exist. This tendency might make for psychological resilience, but it also makes it hard for Appalachians to look at themselves honestly.”
― J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

“To be a human is complex, and often painful; to be an animal is comfortingly simple and good.”
― Liz Moore, The God of the Woods

“Your children grow up, they leave you,
they have become soldiers and riders. Your mate dies after a life of service. Who knows you? Who remembers you?”
― Ann-Marie MacDonald, The Way the Crow Flies

“Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.” As long as you have the books, you’ll always have that light.”
― Kim Michele Richardson, The Book Woman's Daughter

“We and the world, my children, will always be at war. Retreat is impossible. Arm yourselves.”
― Leif Enger, Peace Like a River

“Is it hubris to believe we all live epics?”
― Leif Enger, Peace Like a River

“At the end of the day, Joe, only one thing counts. Everything else is just shiny baubles and empty noise.”
― Allen Eskens, The Shadows We Hide

“America was destined to repeat the cycles of intellectual torpor that toppled Rome and Greece and Mali and the Incas and every empire that stumbled into short-lived, debauched existence. Show man ignoble work and easy sex, and there went civilization.”
― Stacey Abrams, While Justice Sleeps