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  • #1
    Richard Siken
    “I sleep. I dream. I make up things that I would never say. I say them very quietly.”
    Richard Siken

  • #2
    Fredrik Backman
    “Everything is complicated if no one explains it to you.”
    Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry

  • #3
    J.M. Barrie
    “The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.”
    J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan

  • #5
    Leigh Bardugo
    “Crows remember human faces. They remember the people who feed them, who are kind to them. And the people who wrong them too. They don’t forget. They tell each other who to look after and who to watch out for.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

  • #5
    Richard Siken
    “In these dreams it's always you:
    the boy in the sweatshirt,
    the boy on the bridge, the boy who always keeps me
    from jumping off the bridge.
    Oh, the things we invent when we are scared
    and want to be rescued.”
    Richard Siken, Crush

  • #6
    Agatha Christie
    “It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them. ”
    Agatha Christie, Agatha Christie: An Autobiography

  • #7
    Leigh Bardugo
    “I'm a business man," he'd told her. "No more, no less."
    "You're a thief, Kaz."
    "Isn't that what I just said?”
    Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

  • #8
    J.M. Barrie
    “Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.”
    J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

  • #9
    Leigh Bardugo
    “Our hopes rest with you, Mister Brekker. If you fail, all the world will suffer for it."
    "Oh, it's worse than that, Van Eck. If I fail, I don't get paid.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

  • #10
    J.M. Barrie
    “To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
    J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

  • #11
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “They all know it is there, all the people of Omelas. Some of them have come to see it, others are content merely to know it is there. They all know that it has to be there. Some of them understand why, and some do not, but they all understand that their happiness, the beauty of their city, the tenderness of their friendships, the health of their children, the wisdom of their scholars, the skill of their makers, even the abundance of their harvest and the kindly weathers of their skies, depend wholly on this child's abominable misery.”
    Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

  • #12
    Daniel Keyes
    “I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been.”
    Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

  • #13
    Anne Carson
    “Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.”
    Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red

  • #14
    Richard Siken
    “There's a black dog and there's a white dog, depends on which you feed, depends on which damn dog you live with.”
    Richard Siken, Crush

  • #15
    Richard Siken
    “You are a fever I am learning to live with, and everything is happening
    at the wrong end of a very long tunnel.

    I woke up in the morning and I didn't want anything, didn't do anything,
    couldn't do it anyway,
    just lay there listening to the blood rush through me and it never made
    any sense, anything.”
    Richard Siken, Crush



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