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“I suddenly realized. The zebra. It is not something outside of us. The zebra is something inside of us. Our fears. Our own self-destructive nature. The zebra is the worst part of us when we are face-to-face with our worst times. The demon is us!”
― Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain

“Because when I’m with you . . . I don’t feel like I’m just going through the motions in life. When I’m with you . . . I feel like I’m actually living.”
― Lana Ferguson, The Fake Mate

“I'm a five-star kind of gal. "
Your favorite food is soup,”
― Lana Ferguson, The Fake Mate

“Once you go knot you’ll . . . want for . . . not.”
― Lana Ferguson, The Fake Mate

“What if he tries to lay some wolfy claim on you?”
― Lana Ferguson, The Fake Mate

“You're the only one I've ever wanted, and you're the only one I will ever want.”
― Lana Ferguson, The Fake Mate

“Just shut up and kiss me.”
― Lana Ferguson, The Fake Mate

“It’s okay to have butterflies in your stomach, as long as you make them fly in formation,”
― Dana Perino, And the Good News Is...: Lessons and Advice from the Bright Side

“Once I chose just to be myself, everything fell into place.”
― Dana Perino, And the Good News Is...: Lessons and Advice from the Bright Side

“In America, we are blessed with the freedom to speak our minds—and we should do so thoughtfully. We also have to recognize that people who disagree with us are not enemies. We’re all in this together—and we should act like it. In”
― Dana Perino, And the Good News Is...: Lessons and Advice from the Bright Side

“Psychologists call it “learned helplessness” when a person believes, as I did during my youth, that the choices I made had no effect on the outcomes in my life.”
― J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

“I don't know what the answer is, precisely, but I know it starts when we stop blaming Obama or Bush or faceless companies and ask ourselves what we can do to make things better.”
― J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

“There is nothing lower than the poor stealing from the poor. It's hard enough as it is. We sure as hell don't need to make it even harder on each other.”
― J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

“But yeah, like everyone else in our family, they could go from zero to murderous in a fucking heartbeat.”
― J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

“It takes strength and courage to admit the truth.”
― Rick Riordan, The Red Pyramid

“Oh no." I said panic rising in my chest. "No, no, no, Somebody get a can opener. I've got a god in my head!!”
― Rick Riordan, The Red Pyramid

“Well," I said. "If you need me, I'll be outside, playing with sharp objects.”
― Rick Riordan, The Red Pyramid

“Gods have great power, but only humans have creativity, the power to change history.”
― Rick Riordan, The Red Pyramid

“Be prepared. A dog is adorable and noble.
A dog is a true and loving friend. A dog
is also a hedonist.”
― Mary Oliver, Dog Songs: Poems

“Listen, whatever you see and love-
that's where you are.”
― Mary Oliver, Dog Songs: Poems

“We meet wonderful people, but lose them in our busyness.”
― Mary Oliver, Dog Songs

“A dog can never tell you what she knows from the
smells of the world, but you know, watching her,
that you know
almost nothing.”
― Mary Oliver, Dog Songs: Poems

“There is only one question; how to love this world.”
― Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

“how wonderful to be who I am, made out of earth and water, my own thoughts, my own fingerprints—”
― Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

“time is draining from the clock”
― Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

“Joy is not made to be a crumb.”
― Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

“I hope to see everything in this world before I die.”
― Mary Oliver , Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

“May I never not be frisky, May I never not be risqué.”
― Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

“Sometimes there are no rules.”
― Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

“I yearn to know the people I love deeply and intimately—without context, without boxes—and I yearn for them to know me that way, too.”
― Jennette McCurdy, I'm Glad My Mom Died