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“That’s life. You’re always making decisions, taking paths that lead you away from the rest before you can see where they end. Maybe that’s why we as a species love stories so much. All those chances for do-overs, opportunities to live the lives we’ll never have.”
― Emily Henry, Book Lovers

“This book, this job, this trip, this never-ending, days-spanning conversation. I want to make it all last, and I need to know how it ends. I want to finish it, and I need it to go on forever.”
― Emily Henry, Book Lovers

“Information is a lot like water; it's hard to hold on to, and hard to keep from leaking away.”
― Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being

“You can’t untell someone your secrets. You can’t unsay those delicate truths once you learn you can’t trust the person you handed them to.”
― Emily Henry, Funny Story

“Both the nation and the corporation can only exist if at least some people believe in them. And in that sense, they really are kinds of magic kingdoms.”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

“Maybe love shouldn’t be built on a foundation of compromises, but maybe it can’t exist without them either. Not the kind that forces two people into shapes they don’t fit in, but the kind that loosens their grips, always leaves room to grow. Compromises that say, there will be a you-shaped space in my heart, and if your shape changes, I will adapt. No matter where we go, our love will stretch out to hold us, and that makes me feel like … like everything will be okay.”
― Emily Henry, Book Lovers

“Her father showed her the Himalayan yeti, the Loch Ness Monster, the Patagonian giant sloth. There was the Irish elk with antles as big as wings. The South African quagga, which started as a zebra until it ran out of stripes and became a horse. The great auk, the lion-tailed monkey, the Queensland tiger. So many incredible extra creatures in the world, and nobody had found a single one of them.
"Do you think they're real?" she said.
Her father nodded. "I have begun to feel comforted," he said, "by the thought of all we do not know, which is nearly everything.”
― Rachel Joyce, Miss Benson's Beetle

“I don't like crowds, but I like this crowd, because I'm in an us that doesn't require a them.”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

“We learn that hospitals have run out of ICU beds to treat gravely ill Covid-19 patients, but we do not learn of the decades-long series of choices that led to a U.S. healthcare system that privileged efficiency over capacity. This flood of information without context can so easily, and so quickly, transform into misinformation.”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

“After Sarah read them, she pointed out that in the Anthropocene, there are no disinterested observers; there are only participants.”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

“A name, Ruth thought, could be either a ghost or a portent depending upon which side of time you were standing.”
― Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being

“If his medium had been words instead of war, he would have been a poet.”
― Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being

“It was comforting to Shane, knowing what words were coming next. And that was what was inexplicable about Genevieve. It felt like she was supposed to come next. Like the chapter had already been written, and they were just taking their places. Like he already knew her by heart.”
― Tia Williams, Seven Days in June

“Does disappearing one person from the earth clean it some? I seen men I knew were a danger to the world and they too deserve better than this. A shame for me to hope for better, but I know it’s better that can be done. Ain’t no magic potions for these bleeding human hearts. Ain’t no building full of hurt gonna save the masses.”
― Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars

“Everyone wants Kashmir but no one wants Kashmiris.
Aren't I a miracle? A seed that survived the slaughter & slaughters to come.
I think I believe in freedom I just don't know where it is.
I think I believe in home, I just don't know where to look.”
― Fatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us