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“I appreciate this, but I just want to know one thing: How are you going to fuck me?”
― Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

“It was one of the fringe benefits of living for so many years essentially alienated from the world around him; He could easily believe that he was right and the world was wrong.”
― Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

“All I see, he thought, is a dead body breathing.”
― Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

“A lifetime of glory is worth a moment of pain. Louie thought: Let go.”
― Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption

“Without dignity, identity is erased.”
― Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption

“...maybe it was better to break a man's leg than to break his heart.”
― Laura Hillenbrand, Seabiscuit: An American Legend

“At that moment, something shifted sweetly inside him. It was forgiveness, beautiful and effortless and complete. For Louie Zamperini, the war was over.”
― Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption

“It's easy to talk to a horse if you understand his language. Horses stay the same from the day they are born until the day they die. They are only changed by the way people treat them.”
― Laura Hillenbrand, Seabiscuit: An American Legend

“I just thought I was empty and now I'm being filled...and I just wanted to keep being filled.”
― Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption

“He was ignorant, but a lot of people mistook ignorance for stupidity, and knowingness for intelligence.”
― Michael Lewis, The Blind Side

“People had long conversations with him, only to realize later that he hadn't spoken.”
― Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption

“His conviction that everything happened for a reason, and would come to good, gave him laughing equanimity even in hard times.”
― Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption

“I am in an altogether new world now. I can think of nothing more wonderful. It is a real touch of all that heaven means.”
― Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption

“If I knew I had to go through those experiences again," he finally said, "I'd kill myself.”
― Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption

“A thousand moments that I had just taken for granted- mostly because I had assumed that there would be a thousand more.”
― Morgan Matson, Second Chance Summer

“You said you didn’t want to waste your time on people who aren’t going to matter,” I said, and he nodded. “But how do you know they’re not going to matter? Unless you give it a shot?”
― Morgan Matson, Second Chance Summer

“And how was your day? ... Did you do great things?”
― Morgan Matson, Second Chance Summer

“I’m serious!” said Roger. “You think it’s going to last forever.”
　“But nothing lasts forever,” Drew said, and then he and Roger sang together, “Even cold November rain.” I looked from one to the other, baffled.”
― Morgan Matson, Amy & Roger's Epic Detour

“Theoretical crushes could remain perfect and flawless, because you never actually had to find out what that person was really like or deal with the weird way they chewed or anything.”
― Morgan Matson, The Unexpected Everything

“It was like someone had turned off the sun. The center of everything was suddenly gone.”
― Morgan Matson, The Unexpected Everything

“Because believing you’re not alone is the cruelest trick of all.”
― Morgan Matson, The Unexpected Everything

“Keep people at arm’s length and your feelings to yourself.”
― Morgan Matson, The Unexpected Everything

“Tomorrow will be better.”
　“But what if it’s not?” I asked.
　Walcott smiled and let go of the CD. “Then you say it again tomorrow. Because it might be. You never know, right? At some point, tomorrow will be better.”
― Morgan Matson

“But one thing that I was learning about what happened when you stuck around—it usually seemed that other people were willing to stick by you as well.”
― Morgan Matson, Second Chance Summer

“It was like hitting the snooze button on your alarm—your sleep in that window is never very good, since you know it’s borrowed time, and that it will be over all too soon.”
― Morgan Matson, Since You've Been Gone

“I don’t think you have to do something so big to be brave. And it’s the little things that are harder anyway.”
― Morgan Matson, Since You've Been Gone

“Everyone in the world should get a standing ovation at least once in their life because we all overcometh the world.
-Auggie”
― R. J. Palacio

“You said it gets messy, but why does it have to?”

He closed his eyes and shook his head.

“If you’re friends with someone,” she continued, “if you care about them and trust them, it shouldn’t get messy.”

“If you’re friends with someone, that’s the reason it gets messy,” he said tiredly, passing a hand over his eyes.

“Are you kidding me?” she asked. “You don’t think it would be so much more enjoyable if you cared about the person? Trusted the person?”
― Priscilla Glenn, Back to You

“See, Red? When life hands you lemons, you know what you gotta do now."
"Yes, Mr. Cliche. I know what I have to do. I make lemonade."
"No, you scream 'fuck you, lemons!”
― Priscilla Glenn, Back to You

“I always knew I would fall in love with you,” he said softly, “but you were never supposed to love me back.”
― Priscilla Glenn, Back to You