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“The human language, as precise as it is with its thousands of words, can still be so wonderfully vague.”
― Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain

“The complicated thing about good and bad people alike is that most of us can be both at the same time.”
― Fredrik Backman, Us Against You

“The only difference between lying and acting was whether your audience was in on it, but it was all a performance just the same.”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

“Don't make your life about the loss. Make it about the love.”
― Tracy Deonn, Legendborn

“A coward is not a man who feels fear. A coward is one who would volunteer others for suffering he would not take on himself.”
― Andrea Stewart, The Bone Shard Emperor

“Sometimes, books just take us away for a little while, and return us to our place with a new perspective.”
― Sara Nisha Adams, The Reading List

“We’ve all suffered—but because you think you’ve suffered more, that gives you a right to dismiss what others are going through?”
― Andrea Stewart, The Bone Shard Emperor

“Burdens are for shoulders strong enough to carry them.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

“This is when I understood that we can do without almost anything – our home, even our country. But we will never do without other people, and we will never do without family.”
― Hyeonseo Lee, The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector's Story

“Death does that to us, it’s like a phone call, you always remember exactly what you should have said the moment you hang up.”
― Fredrik Backman, Us Against You

“I hope you remember that if you encounter an obstacle on the road, don’t think of it as an obstacle at all… think of it as a challenge to find a new path on the road less traveled.”
― Hyeonseo Lee, The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector's Story

“Uniformity is not unity. Silence is not peace.”
― Jordan Ifueko, Raybearer

“But I knew, deep down, that love had never fixed anyone. It had only given them the strength to try over and over and over again.”
― Jordan Ifueko, Raybearer

“Please try to remember that books aren’t always an escape; sometimes books teach us things. They show us the world; they don’t hide it.”
― Sara Nisha Adams, The Reading List

“Once you’ve fallen in love with books, their presence can make you feel at home anywhere, even in places where you shouldn’t belong.”
― Kristin Harmel, The Book of Lost Names

“Culture isn't just what we encourage but what we allow to happen.”
― Fredrik Backman, Us Against You

“What does it take to be a good parent? Not much. Just everything. Absolutely everything.”
― Fredrik Backman, Us Against You

“For as long as ours has been a nation of immigrants, we have been a nation that fears immigrants. Fear of the other is woven into the fabric of our American culture, and unscrupulous people in power have exploited that fear in pursuit of political advantage.”
― Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey