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“She didn't seem to understand that this was strange, that when the rest of them looked at the junkyard, they saw only failures, not the building blocks of new successes. This wasn't their place. There was no question that it was hers.”
― Seanan McGuire, Beneath the Sugar Sky

“There is kindness in the world, if we know how to look for it. If we never start denying it the door.”
― Seanan McGuire, Beneath the Sugar Sky

“Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”
― Pablo Neruda, Love: Ten Poems

“You can learn from a glance at anyone's library, not what they are, but what they wish to be.”
― Alan Bradley, Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd

“. . . and there was for a moment an unbreakable bond between us: the eternal bond of chemistry.
I glowed with all the fire of a newborn galaxy.”
― Alan Bradley, Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd

“But love was always something heavy for me. Something I had to carry.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“Is love a contest?"
"What does that mean?"
"Maybe everyone loves differently. Maybe that's all that matters.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“Four girls went by here last night in a group, She said finally getting to her feet. You can tell by the stampede of ugg boots.”
― Brittany Cavallaro, A Study in Charlotte

“possibilities are so much more thrilling than certainties”
― Alan Bradley, The Grave's a Fine and Private Place

“The possibilities seemed endless, which made it all the more exciting, since possibilities are so much more thrilling than certainties -- or so I've always thought.”
― Alan Bradley, The Grave's a Fine and Private Place

“He's getting old. I don't count the years. I don't multiply by seven. They bred dogs for everything else, even diving for fish, why didn't they breed them to live longer, to live as long as a man?”
― Peter Heller, The Dog Stars

“Hate can be a deeply stimulating emotion. The world becomes easier to understand and much less terrifying if you divide everything and everyone into friends and enemies, we and they, good and evil. The easiest way to unite a group isn't through love, because love is hard, It makes demands. Hate is simple. So the first thing that happens in a conflict is that we choose a side, because that's easier than trying to hold two thoughts in our heads at the same time. The second thing that happens is that we seek out facts that confirm what we want to believe - comforting facts, ones that permit life to go on as normal. The third is that we dehumanize our enemy.”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

“Another morning comes. It always does. Time always moves at the same rate, only feelings have different speeds. Every day can mark a whole lifetime or a single heartbeat, depending on who you spend it with. *”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

“What's a horizon?' Lazlo asked, straight-faced. 'Is it like the end of an aisle of books?”
― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer

“Any luck?" Lazlo asked her when he saw her coming back from a test at the anchor.

"Luck has nothing to do with it," she replied. "It's all strength and cleverness." She winked, flexing her hands like five-legged spiders. "And glue.”
― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer

“A tree with strong roots laughs at storms.”
― Nnedi Okorafor, The Night Masquerade

“In the clarity of night, Eliza had realized that it was better to make changes for oneself than try to mend holes torn by the decisions of others.”
― Kate Morton, The Forgotten Garden

“Drum roll of rain. Stupid man does wrong thing once more.”
― Annie Proulx

“Sometimes you take detours to get where you need to go.”
― Edwidge Danticat, Everything Inside

“There are loves that outlive lovers.”
― Edwidge Danticat, Everything Inside

“But time moves in only one direction. Not everything that breaks can be repaired.”
― Karen Thompson Walker, The Dreamers

“You mean they killed her?" asked David.
They ate her," said Brother Number One. "With porridge. That's what 'ran away and was never seen again' means in these parts. It means 'eaten.'"
Um and what about 'happily ever after'?" asked David, a little uncertainly. "What does that mean?"
Eaten quickly," said Brother Number One.”
― John Connolly, The Book of Lost Things

“We are not meant to know the time or the nature of our deaths (for all of us secretly hope that we may be immortal).”
― John Connolly, The Book of Lost Things

“I’m a simple man without a lot of complicated twists and turns. Look down my throat and you can see out my ass.”
― Liu Cixin, The Three-Body Problem

“Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

“I guess sometimes the perfection we perceive in others is made up of a whole bunch of tiny imperfections, because some days the damn dress just won't zip.”
― Julie Murphy, Dumplin'

“Good friendships are durable. They're meant to survive the gaps and the growing pains.”
― Julie Murphy, Dumplin'

“There are lies that are subtle and hard to spot, and then there are lies that burn with the brightness of a million suns, blinding you with their sheer audacity.”
― Amelia Brunskill, The Window

“For the best conversations are with yourself. At least there’s no risk of a misunderstanding.”
― Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

“The problem is that everything is relative. Happiness is based on expectations and we have the internet now. A whole world constantly asking us, "But is your life as perfect as this? Well, how about now? Is it as perfect as this? If it isn't, change it!!" The truth of course is, that if people really were as happy as they look on the internet, they wouldn't spend so much damn time on the internet. Because no one who's having a really good day spends half of it taking pictures of themselves. Anyone can nurture a myth about their life if they have enough manure. So, if the grass looks greener on the other side of the fence, that's probably because it's full of shit.”
― Frederik Backman