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“I prithee take thy fingers from my throat, For, though I am not splenitive and rash, Yet have I in me something dangerous, Which let thy wisdom fear. Hold off thy hand. —From Hamlet by Shakespeare”
― Matthew Quick, Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock

“Eventually we find that we no longer need silence. We no longer need solitude. We no longer even need words. We can make all our actions holy. We can cook a meal for our family and it becomes prayer. We can go for a walk in the park and it becomes prayer.”
― Mark Haddon, The Red House

“Beliefs are the roads we take to reach our dreams. Believe you can do something—or believe you can’t—and you’ll be right every time.”
― Jodi Picoult, Sing You Home

“Marriage was a form of insanity; love hovering permanently on the edge of aggravation.”
― Liane Moriarty, The Husband's Secret

“None of us ever know all the possible courses our lives could have and maybe should have taken. It's probably just as well. Some secrets are meant to stay secret forever. Just ask Pandora.”
― Liane Moriarty, The Husband's Secret

“Words are powerful. You can hurt someone with a lie. You can heal them with encouragement and positivity.”
― C.J. Bridgeman, Spellweaver

“Fencing. Fighting. Torture. Poison. True love. Hate. Revenge. Giants. Hunters. Bad men. Good men. Beautiful ladies. Snakes. Spiders. Pain. Death. Brave men. Cowardly men. Strongest men. Chases. Escapes. Lies. Truths. Passion. Miracles.”
― Cary Elwes, As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride

“There is only one law in the universe that never changes—that all things change, and that all things are impermanent.” —BUDDHA”
― Carol Cassella, Gemini

“You are six or twelve or fifteen and you look in the mirror and you hear a voice so awful and mean that it takes your breath away. It tells you that you are fat and ugly and you don’t deserve love. And the scary part is the demon is your own voice.”
― Amy Poehler, Yes Please

“I think grief is like a really ugly couch. It never goes away. You can decorate around it; you can slap a doily on top of it; you can push it to the corner of the room—but eventually, you learn to live with it.”
― Jodi Picoult, Leaving Time

“Relax” is a real tough one for me. Another tough one is “smile.” “Smile” doesn’t really work either. Telling me to relax or smile when I’m angry is like bringing a birthday cake into an ape sanctuary. You’re just asking to get your nose and genitals bitten off.”
― Amy Poehler, Yes Please

“We are all wearing masks. That is what makes us interesting.”
― Neil Gaiman, Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances

“As an improviser, I always find it jarring when I meet someone in real life whose first answer is no. “No, we can’t do that.” “No, that’s not in the budget.” “No, I will not hold your hand for a dollar.” What kind of way is that to live?”
― Tina Fey, Bossypants

“But there is not one management course in the world where they recommend Self-Righteousness as a tool.”
― Tina Fey, Bossypants

“A man goes to a psychiatrist and says, “My brother’s gone crazy. He thinks he’s a chicken.” And the psychiatrist says, “Have you told him he’s not a chicken?” The man replies, “I would, but we need the eggs.”
― Tina Fey, Bossypants

“Some of the best things in life come when you’re not planning on them. It’s important to see them for the gift they are.”
― Susan Crandall, Whistling Past the Graveyard

“The words you can't find, you borrow.
We read to know we're not alone. We read because we are alone. We read and we are not alone.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

“I think it was Oscar Wilde who said, You wouldn’t care about what other people thought about you if you realized how seldom they actually did.”
― Maria Semple, This One Is Mine

“Bill supposed that for every child there was a defining age, a fixed reference point in relation to which his parents would always view him; whereas the child’s own truest self would always be the present one.”
― Ann Packer, The Children's Crusade

“You know what ‘congregate’ means? It’s from the Latin. ‘Greg’ means herd. ‘Con’ means with. We’re with our herd.”
― Ann Packer, The Children's Crusade

“Horrible as this is to admit, I think I cried less because my dad was dying than for the dad I had never had.”
― Jane Green, Summer Secrets

“I often thought grief was like madness—the lack of control, the overwhelming waves of emotion with unexpected triggers, breathlessness, night sweats, nightmares, and the feeling of utter aloneness, like that of standing on a ledge in a violent wind.”
― Erika Robuck, Call Me Zelda

“Memories are like wolves. You can’t lock them away and hope they leave you alone.”
― Nina George, The Little Paris Bookshop

“I need to cry some more. I'll drown if I don't...Sometimes you're swimming in unwept tears and you'll go under if you store them up inside.”
― Nina George, The Little Paris Bookshop

“Books keep stupidity at bay. And vain hopes. And vain men. They undress you with love, strength and knowledge. It’s love from within. Make your choice: book or…”
― Nina George, The Little Paris Bookshop

“Oh no, she was never elitist. She said that far too many women are the accomplices of cruel, indifferent men. They lie for these men. They lie to their own children. Because their fathers treated them exactly the same way. These women always retain some hope that love is hiding behind the cruelty, so that the anguish doesn’t drive them mad. Truth is, though, Max, there’s no love there.”
― Nina George, The Little Paris Bookshop

“We cannot decide to love. We cannot compel anyone to love us. There's no secret recipe, only love itself. And we are at its mercy--there's nothing we can do.”
― Nina George, The Little Paris Bookshop

“Nobody would ever wise up if they hadn’t at some stage been young and stupid.”
― Nina George, The Little Paris Bookshop

“All of us preserve time. We preserve the old versions of the people who have left us. And under our skin, under the layer of wrinkles and experience and laughter, we, too, are old versions of ourselves. Directly below the surface, we are our former selves: the former child, the former lover, the former daughter.”
― Nina George, The Little Paris Bookshop

“Reading—an endless journey; a long, indeed never-ending journey that made one more temperate as well as more loving and kind.”
― Nina George, The Little Paris Bookshop