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“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

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

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

“It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
― Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book

“My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.”
― Patricia Highsmith

“Claire,” he said quietly. “Tomorrow I will die. This child … is all that will be left of me—ever. I ask ye, Claire—I beg you—see it safe.” I stood still, vision blurring, and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It was a small, clean sound, like the snapping of a flower’s stem.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Dragonfly in Amber

“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
― Narcotics Anonymous

“Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
― Mark Twain

“So long as my body lives, and yours—we are one flesh,” he whispered. His fingers touched me, hair and chin and neck and breast, and I breathed his breath and felt him solid under my hand. Then I lay with my head on his shoulder, the strength of him supporting me, the words deep and soft in his chest. “And when my body shall cease, my soul will still be yours. Claire—I swear by my hope of heaven, I will not be parted from you.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Drums of Autumn

“The universe had shifted, with a small, decisive click; he could still hear its echo in his bones.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Drums of Autumn

“we are all children at heart and that we all need to be heard and understood.”
― T.R. Ragan, Evil Never Dies

“Since his death, each day came and went as if nothing had changed. The world kept turning. Trees still danced in the wind. The birds squawked and chirped. Everything was exactly as it always had been. And yet nothing would ever be the same again. And that particular fact fueled her rage.”
― T.R. Ragan, Evil Never Dies

“The ocean calmed her. Somehow its endless horizon connected her spirit to something much bigger than her daily life. Oddly freeing, that feeling of relative insignificance.”
― Jamie Beck, Worth the Trouble

“He remembered only too well how unpredictable grief was. How it swept in and took you right off your feet with no warning.”
― Nancy Naigle, Out of Focus

“But death was like that. An interruption of a work in progress.”
― Anne Frasier, Play Dead

“always blame himself. And maybe that was the lesson here. Love your kids, no matter who they are and no matter what choices they make. Respect those choices.”
― Anne Frasier, Pretty Dead

“Eating with children at a restaurant is like eating with a live grenade. It’s going to explode every time. You just don’t know when.”
― Matthew Norman, We're All Damaged

“Maybe ’cause you don’t always have to win a pageant to wear a crown.”
― Julie Murphy, Dumplin'

“I guess sometimes the perfection we perceive in others is made up of a whole bunch of tiny imperfections, because some days the damn dress just won't zip.”
― Julie Murphy, Dumplin'

“That’s how most of the last fifty years of my life disappeared, even though I didn’t know it before now. And believe me, that’s all it takes. One little kiss and then you’ve thrown your lot in with someone, and your whole life has to be built around him. And all the parts of you that don’t fit with him have to go into hiding, and all the ones that do have to come to the surface and act like they’re the whole of you. The entire reason I did what I did is because we both knew I’d be gone in a few hours. It’s the first time in my life I ever got to do a thing like that and not stay around to pay the price. You’ll understand when you get older.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Allie and Bea

“My daughter, I am not a Mrs Whatsit, a Mrs Who, or a Mrs Which. Yes, Calvin has told me everything he could. I am a human being, and a very fallible one. But I agree with Calvin. We were sent here for something. And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

“Rationalization was my narcotic. And, as with all drugs, over time, I habituated to mine. I needed more and more to accomplish less and less. Eventually, there was no dose at all that could confer the comfort I craved.”
― Barry Eisler, The Detachment

“Marital success isn’t measured by what you share with your spouse. It’s what you don’t. Are you married, Ella?”
― Kerry Lonsdale, Last Summer

“[The suffragette] is a woman who has stupidly carried her envy of certain of the superficial privileges of men to such a point that it takes on the character of an obsession. . . . What these virtuous beldames actually desire in their hearts is . . . that the franchise of dalliance be extended to themselves.—H. L. Mencken, 1922”
― Marlowe Benn, Relative Fortunes