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“Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.”
― Honoré de Balzac

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow.”
― Djuna Barnes

“Aren't we all pawns in the hands of time, the greatest player of them all?”
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Palace of Illusions

“Love comes like lightning, and disappears the same way. If you are lucky, it strikes you right. If not, you'll spend your life yearning for a man you can't have.”
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Palace of Illusions

“Don't be afraid. There's the two of us now.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Outlander

“I have work to do, and I am afraid not to do it.”
― John O'hara

“Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.”
― Louis L'Amour, Matagorda/The First Fast Draw: Two Novels in One Volume

“If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.”
― Tennessee Williams, Conversations With Tennessee Williams

“When will you learn that there isn't a word for everything?”
― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

“The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.”
― Stanley Fish

“I've barely said five words to you. What indication could you possibly have that I am a Yankee?"

"Well, we could start with the words 'what indication.' Someone from south of the Mason-Dixon would have said, 'Who the hell are you calling a Yankee?' Then we would have fought.”
― Jana Deleon

“Facebook had to be the biggest playground for self-absorbed assholes that the world had ever seen.”
― Jana Deleon, Louisiana Longshot

“Are you sure you weren't adopted?"
"Mom would like to think so, but it was a natural birth, so her memory's real clear.”
― Jana Deleon, Unlucky

“No matter what happens to someone, at that exact moment, something that could be construed as worse is happening to someone else. That doesn’t lessen our own heartache. It doesn’t diminish the fact that right then, you’re dealing with one of the worst things that’s ever happened to you.”
― Jana Deleon, Unseen

“I’m pretty sure the perfect man has already been built. She’s called ‘woman”
― Jana Deleon, Unseen

“Romance and love are two different things.”
― Jana Deleon, Unseen

“It’s what we do after all that’s been done to us that matters.”
― Jana Deleon, Unseen

“A wind rose around me, from where I didn't know. It was unexpectedly cold and made me shiver. 'Sacrifice, sacrifice', whispered the trees, carrying my promise across the valley”
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Forest of Enchantments

“Instead of consoling us, my mother spoke sternly. 'Pull yourselves together. Surely I've brought you up better than this? we come into the world alone, and we leave it alone. And in between, too, if it is destined, we'll be alone. Draw on your inner strength. Remember, you can be your own worst enemy - or your best friend. It's up to you. And also this: what you can't change, you must endure.'
I knew it was mostly to me that she'd spoken. 'Endure'. A word solid as a tree trunk. A good word upon which to build a life, I thought. I would learn it, and it would help me through dark times.”
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Forest of Enchantments

“It is unfair that one person should suffer in order for others to be blessed. If the gods were powerful enough to shape our destinies, why couldn't they just send us a good fortune untainted by sorrow?”
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Forest of Enchantments

“Ram and Lakshman had joined their father, who had been housed in a separate palace, at the edge of the royal grounds because it was considered inauspicious for brides and grooms to meet in the days that preceded the wedding. I had to console myself with the fact that in a few days we'd belong to each other. We'd spend the rest of our lives together, and we wouldn't allow any of society's foolish dictates to separate us.”
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Forest of Enchantments

“All the law does is keep the honest people from doing illegal things.”
― Jana Deleon, Swamp Spirits

“We only break the law to help people. Well, and maybe to have some fun.”
― Jana Deleon, Swamp Spirits

“The rules often get in the way of progress.”
― Jana Deleon, Swamp Spirits

“The rules often get in the way of progress.” “The CIA had rules,” Cassidy said. I grinned. “But like me, they preferred results.”
― Jana Deleon, Swamp Spirits

“Maybe I was growing on him! Like a fungus!”
― Clare Kauter, Losing Your Head

“I wondered why being a woman meant I’d have extra work. Then I remembered how society functioned and stopped wondering.”
― Clare Kauter, Losing Your Head

“know I’m usually a better arsehole than this, but I’m too exhausted to put in the effort.”
― Clare Kauter, Losing Your Head

“No body, no worries,”
― Clare Kauter, Not a Clue