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“You are remarkable.”
― Totoro, Introduction to Statistics

“I love you.”
― Totoro

“I’ll know that you are not a puzzle that can be solved but a mystery that can never be gotten to the bottom of. I’ll do you the honor of suspending judgment and letting you be as you are.”
― David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

“I choose to remember us.”
― Totoro, Introduction to Statistics

“I love you, Katie. You might not be ready to say those words now, and maybe you'll never be able to say them, but that doesn't change how I feel about you.”
― Nicholas Sparks, Safe Haven

“It's scary believing that you, as you are, could ever be enough.”
― Roxane Gay, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

“She knew suddenly that a woman could change her whole life and uproot her existence with one choice.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

“My heart only ever had one thought, one want. One need. Despite all, in spite of all...All my heart has ever wanted is you.”
― Stephanie Laurens, The Edge of Desire

“And what is connection, really, if not shared judgment?”
― Jennette McCurdy, Half His Age

“As long as you are alive, it is never too late to be found.”
― Lily King, Heart the Lover

“You are broken. But you've handled everything that's been put in front of you. So you're perfect too, and a badass bitch on top of that. In a sick world, healthy is strange.”
― Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars

“If you were accepted by just one person, then you didn’t need to be someone whose beauty was acknowledged by everyone.”
― Asako Yuzuki, Butter

“Patience is the answer to so many of life’s questions.”
― Alice Feeney, Rock Paper Scissors

“How can I describe how much I love you?
Is it even possible to describe a love like that? I don’t know, but as I
sit here with pen in hand, I know that I have to try.”
― Nicholas Sparks, Safe Haven

“Print is predictable and impersonal, conveying information in a mechanical transaction with the reader’s eye.

Handwriting, by contrast, resists the eye, reveals its meaning slowly, and is as intimate as skin.”
― Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being

“At the time, I thought my life couldn’t get any worse. Here’s some advice: Don’t ever think that.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

“That was the starting and ending point in life: love. The journey was everything in between.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Women

“She was tired of living her life thinking constantly about how she appeared to others, checking her answers against everyone else’s.”
― Asako Yuzuki, Butter: A Novel of Food and Murder

“Keeping secrets from young ears only plants seeds in between them,”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

“Isabelle had always been impetuous, a force of nature, really, a girl who liked to break rules. Countless nuns and teachers had learned that she could be neither controlled nor contained.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

“I find myself drawn to literature more now than in the past; not the individual works as much as the idea of literature—the heroic effort and nobility of our human desire to make beauty of our minds—which moves me to tears, and I have to brush them away, quickly, before anyone notices.”
― Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being

“When a man sees he has been forsaken. Discovers he might be unblessed. Thinking he understood. All at once he see the gods he kept don’t keep him the same way. Not how he hoped. He see he had it all wrong the whole time.”
― Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars

“Never be mean in anything. Never be false. Never be cruel. I can always be hopeful of you.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

“Never eat anything you don’t want to. When you take the decision to live that way”
― Asako Yuzuki, Butter: A Novel of Food and Murder

“Time itself is being, he wrote, and all being is time . . . In essence, everything in the entire universe is intimately linked with each other as moments in time, continuous and separate.”
― Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being

“And she smiled. She relished the moment, the gift of her and Thurwar existing in the same time and space, no matter how briefly.”
― Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars

“In Sunnyvale, I used to think I was adopted. Some of my friends there were Chinese girls adopted by ordinary California parents, but I felt like the opposite, like an ordinary California girl adopted by Japanese parents, who were strange and different, but tolerable, because in Sunnyvale it was kind of special to be Japanese.”
― Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being

“Word of the year: atelophobia noun. The fear of not doing something right or the fear of not being good enough. An extreme anxiety of failure to achieve perfection.”
― Alice Feeney, Rock Paper Scissors

“Assumptions and expectations will kill any relationship, so let’s you and me not go there, okay?”
― Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being

“He thanked God for showing him his life had not been for nothing. He did not know what it was for, but he knew it was not for nothing.”
― Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars