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“Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.”
― Sylvia Plath

“How many times can a man go down and still be alive?”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“I will be the last woman | in my family | to be used as a pin cushion | a mirror | a reflection of a man’s wounds.”
― Michaela Angemeer, Poems for the Signs

“That’s why she’s always outside because there’s nothing for her at home.”
― Lisa Jewell, The Girls in the Garden

“I’m afraid of what I’ll miss.”
― Ann Brashares, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

“By looking up [that person] I was holding on to a future that had been cancelled. I’d need to accept that his future and mine, his present and mine, were now that all we had left in common was our history.”
― Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed

“Dreams are messages from the deep.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“A book is a loaded gun.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“He was not happy. He was not happy. He said the words to himself. He recognized this as the true state of affairs. He wore his happiness like a mask.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“Stuff your eyes with wonder... live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“Grandma Lynn predicted I’d have a long life because I had saved my brothers’s. As usual, Grandma Lynn was wrong.”
― Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

“At fourteen, my sister sailed away from me from a place I'd never been. In the walls of my sex there was horror and blood, in the walls of hers there were windows.”
― Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

“The floor seemed wonderfully solid. It was comforting to know I had fallen and could fall no further.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“Sometimes I really believe it, that I am going to save my life a little.”
― Mary Oliver

“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Price