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“Is there anything better than iced coffee and a bookstore on a sunny day? I mean, aside from hot coffee and a bookstore on a rainy day.”
― Emily Henry, Book Lovers

“People basically leave New York because they’re cold, claustrophobic, tired, or financially overwhelmed”
― Emily Henry, Book Lovers

“Daily life was unpredictable, but the bookstore was a constant.”
― Emily Henry, Book Lovers

“Sometimes, even when you start with the last page and you think you know everything, a book finds a way to surprise you.”
― Emily Henry, Book Lovers

“It’s exhausting trying to be the person you think you want to be, when all you really want is to be happy being the person you are.”
― Sandie Jones, The Guilt Trip

“Perhaps if she’d known then what she knows now, she’d think again, because all of a sudden, time isn’t so infinite. It does run out, for all of us. Days run into weeks, and months run into years, and we find that the twenty-year-old we thought we’d always be, was lost decades ago.”
― Sandie Jones, The Guilt Trip

“Perhaps if she’d known then what she knows now, she’d think again, because all of a sudden, time isn’t so infinite. It does run out, for all of us. Days run into weeks, and months run into years, and we find that the twenty-year-old we thought we’d always be, was lost decades ago. “Here”
― Sandie Jones, The Guilt Trip

“When you have your period you can’t be held responsible for what you do.”
― Sally Hepworth, The Younger Wife

“Sometimes, we need to look at our lives from a different angle to recognize the dysfunction and damage certain relationships are causing.”
― Greer Hendricks, The Golden Couple

“Insomnia can grip us for many reasons: stress, guilt, fear, and rage are among them. An uneasy mind is difficult to quiet.”
― Greer Hendricks, The Golden Couple

“One percent of the population is composed of psychopaths, and most of them aren’t the homicidal criminals we envision. We’ve all encountered them: people who seem charming and charismatic, but who lie without remorse and manipulate and deceive. And female psychopaths can be particularly adept at manipulation.”
― Greer Hendricks, The Golden Couple

“TIME IS A CHAMELEON. It’s ever changing, cannily adapting to circumstances.”
― Greer Hendricks, The Golden Couple

“TIME IS A CHAMELEON. It’s ever changing, cannily adapting to circumstances. It stretches out some tiny moments for an eternity. Then it shifts course and swallows up whole days, years even, as if they never existed. It’s as slippery and elusive as water running through the cracks in a tightly cupped hand.”
― Greer Hendricks, The Golden Couple

“Grief is a shape-shifter. It defies logic, sneaking up on you when you least expect it and leaving you empty-handed and hollowed out when you go searching for it.”
― Greer Hendricks, The Golden Couple

“Grief isn’t linear. It isn’t logical. There’s no structure or civility to it; it grabs you when you least expect it and digs in its nails until you succumb.”
― Greer Hendricks, The Golden Couple

“I want to give you the life I never had, Net. I want to give you the life I deserved. The life my parents wouldn’t let me have.”
― Jennette McCurdy, I'm Glad My Mom Died

“He put his face to the glass and saw what was out there, and this time when his eyes opened wide and his mouth made the shape of an O, his hands stayed by his sides because something made him feel very cold and unsafe.”
― John Boyne, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

“The logical side of me knows that what we want and what we get are usually two entirely different things.”
― Nicholas Sparks, Dreamland

“As a rule I take things as they come and try not to expect or regret much.”
― Nicholas Sparks, Dreamland

“I’m not proud of who I was back then, but I also know it’s impossible to change the past.”
― Nicholas Sparks, Dreamland

“Over time, I’ve come to accept the notion that we don’t always get to choose our paths in life; sometimes, they choose us.”
― Nicholas Sparks, Dreamland

“There was, after all, more to life than work, and I realized I no longer wanted to be the person I’d recently become. I wanted to embrace those things that were important to me and worry less about the things that were beyond my control.”
― Nicholas Sparks, Dreamland

“I want my mama. I want her to soothe away my sadness and kiss me while calling me ya omri and te’eburenee. My life and bury me.”
― Zoulfa Katouh, As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow

“We are stripped from our choices, so we latch onto what will ensure our survival.”
― Zoulfa Katouh, As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow

“The world is not sweet or kind. The ones outside are waiting to eat us and pick their teeth with our bones. That’s what they’ll do to your siblings. So we do everything to make sure we and our loved ones survive. Whatever it takes.”
― Zoulfa Katouh, As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow

“As if memory were a bead that might spring from her fingers, clatter to the floor, roll into a crack and disappear.”
― Celeste Ng, Our Missing Hearts

“I don't know if I believe in hell, but if it had a sound, it would be the strangled howl of your father finally realizing that the love of his life is being put into the ground.”
― Sabaa Tahir, All My Rage

“Wondering how someone who filled up a room could fit into a box so small.”
― Sabaa Tahir, All My Rage

“If we are lost, God is like water, finding the unknowable path when we cannot.”
― Sabaa Tahir, All My Rage

“is a gift to the person who grants it and to the person who receives it.”
― Sabaa Tahir, All My Rage