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“We don’t have a word for the opposite of loneliness, but if we did, I could say that’s what I want in life.”
― Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories

“Because when a teacher appreciates you, you think "I am something!" In a society where people believe girls are weak, and not capable of anything except cooking and cleaning, you think "I have a talent." When a teacher tells you that all great leaders and scientists were once children, too, you think, "Maybe we can be the great ones tomorrow." In a country where so many people consider it a waste to send girls to school, it is a teacher who helps you believe in your dreams.”
― Malala Yousafzai

“      Tell me, what is it you plan to do       With your one wild and precious life?”
― Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

“I know one of the secrets the rest of the country hasn’t figured out yet: it’s not New Yorkers who are rude, it’s the tourists who’ve seen a movie about rude New Yorkers and think they have to act the same way when they come to New York who are rude.”
― Sari Botton, Never Can Say Goodbye: Writers on Their Unshakable Love for New York

“Kvetching means complaining, and complaining is really what will forever keep New York the city it is.”
― Sari Botton, Never Can Say Goodbye: Writers on Their Unshakable Love for New York

“And I discovered this was the best thing about New York: you could run away every day if you wanted to and still find yourself in a newly incarnated version of the city.”
― Sari Botton, Never Can Say Goodbye: Writers on Their Unshakable Love for New York

“always that feeling when you walk out the door and onto the street in New York that today, no matter what happened yesterday, you can begin again.”
― Sari Botton, Never Can Say Goodbye: Writers on Their Unshakable Love for New York

“And then there are the subway readers of difficult books. I like to imagine that New Yorkers are more literate than the riders of other American metropolises.”
― Sari Botton, Never Can Say Goodbye: Writers on Their Unshakable Love for New York

“The subways, to my eyes, are a godsend: efficient, they get me where I want to go pretty quickly, they provide entertainment, sometimes via musicians who perform at station platforms, sometimes through the singing panhandlers who traipse through the cars, and most important, they are a stay against solipsism, proof positive that I am not alone in the universe.”
― Sari Botton, Never Can Say Goodbye: Writers on Their Unshakable Love for New York

“Wherever I am is the beginning of an adventure.”
― Sari Botton, Never Can Say Goodbye: Writers on Their Unshakable Love for New York

“People often mistake New Yorkers for rude and mean, but they’re really just no-nonsense and efficient. They don’t have time, regularly, to be warm and friendly with everyone who crosses their path. Nothing would ever get done. But when the chips are down, when it matters, they drop their cool exteriors and become unabashedly human.”
― Sari Botton, Never Can Say Goodbye: Writers on Their Unshakable Love for New York

“Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.”
― Jeanette Winterson

“It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“I've made books my life because they let me escape this world of cruelty and savagery.”
― Jeff Zentner, The Serpent King

“If you're going to live, you might as well do painful, brave, and beautiful things.”
― Jeff Zentner, The Serpent King

“As that famous homosexual Winston Churchill once said, if you find yourself heartbroken, keep walking.”
― David Levithan, You Know Me Well