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“You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer

“Just once I want someone to be afraid of losing me,” Phoebe said. “But the only thing Luke’s afraid of losing is power.”
― Robyn Schneider, The Beginning of Everything

“You know, if mankind has one universal superpower, it’s gaslighting women into thinking they’re the problem.”
― Ally Carter, The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year

“There’s an old saying: The first lie wins. It’s not referring to the little white kind that tumble out with no thought; it refers to the big one. The one that changes the game. The one that is deliberate. The lie that sets the stage for everything that comes after it. And once the lie is told, it’s what most people believe to be true. The first lie has to be the strongest. The most important. The one that has to be told.”
― Ashley Elston, First Lie Wins

“You can tell a lot about a person by the way they act when they are left waiting too long.”
― Ashley Elston, First Lie Wins

“Blunt honesty has more value than blind worship”
― Ashley Elston, First Lie Wins

“She learned that no matter how hard you try, sometimes it’s not enough. She learned the only person you could trust, the only person you could truly rely on, was yourself.”
― Ashley Elston, First Lie Wins

“You’re a fucking dick. Fuck you and fuck all the way off, you fucker.”
― Ashley Elston, First Lie Wins

“The only one who cares about me is me. The only one who is going to make sure I survive is me.”
― Ashley Elston, First Lie Wins

“In the past. It's a strong phrase to use for something that doesn't go further back than a few years. It's crazy how so much can change in such a short time.”
― Per Jacobsen, 25 Days

“You were never supposed to do more than he did. You weren’t supposed to be more. You sure as hell weren’t supposed to earn more. I know men like that. I come from a long line of men exactly like that, so believe me when I say he needed you to be less than him, and you were always going to be more.”
― Ally Carter, The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year

“She hated him because he was handsome and charming and they lived in a world where a man didn’t have to be anything else.”
― Ally Carter, The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year

“Death might appear to destroy the meaning in our lives, but in fact it is the very source of our creativity. As Kafka said, “The meaning of life is that it ends.” Death is the engine that keeps us running, giving us the motivation to achieve, learn, love, and create.”
― Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory

“Sifting through an urn of cremated remains you cannot tell if a person had successes, failures, grandchildren, felonies. “For you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”
― Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory

“In many ways, women are death's natural companions. Every time a woman gives birth, she is creating not only a life, but a death. Samuel Beckett wrote that women "give birth astride of a grave." Mother Nature is indeed a real mother, creating and destroying in a constant loop.”
― Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory

“The silence of death, of the cemetery, was no punishment, but a reward for a life well lived.”
― Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory