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“Sometimes it is better to let a lion roar rather than to force him into a corner.”
― Ronald H. Balson, The Girl from Berlin

“Time, as far as my father was concerned, was a gift you gave to other people.”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming

“once you’ve outgrown the ideas of what life should be and you just enjoy what it is?” Of all the things people have said to”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, After I Do

“Make yourself available, make yourself easily found, should someone try to find you. Be open, be generous, be humble. You are in a unique position in which you cannot require love and acceptance, but you must give it if your daughter seeks it from you. It may seem hard, almost impossible, to love without the expectation of love in return, but once you have figured out how to do it, you will find that you really are a parent.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, After I Do

“Why is it only on the verge of losing something that we see how much we need it?”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, After I Do

“Just because you can live without someone doesn’t mean you want to,”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, After I Do

“Big gestures are easy. Making fun of someone who’s just trying to help you, that’s family.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, After I Do

“That’s my main priority when it comes to food. Other people are obsessed with calories, nutritional value, antioxidants. I look at food and wonder: Can I eat that without having to put my book down?”
― Ellery Adams, The Secret, Book, & Scone Society

“Books are everywhere; and always the same sense of adventure fills us . . . in this random miscellaneous company we may rub against some complete stranger who will, with luck, turn into the best friend we have in the world.”
― Ellery Adams, The Secret, Book, & Scone Society

“It’s always that way when you’re looking at books. An hour goes by in a minute: you don’t know where the hell the time went.”
― Ellery Adams, The Secret, Book, & Scone Society

“Nothing exists. All is a dream. God—man—the world—the sun, the moon, the wilderness of stars—a dream, all a dream; they have no existence. Nothing exists save empty space—and you…. And you are not you—you have no body, no blood, no bones, you are but a thought. MARK TWAIN”
― Blake Crouch, Dark Matter

“You were the moon of my existence; your moods dictated the tides of my heart.”
― Sherry Thomas, Not Quite a Husband

“Beauty is its own reason for being.”
― Nora Roberts, Born in Shame

“You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.”
― Beck Dorey-Stein, From the Corner of the Oval

“Life is too short to allow yourself to be treated badly,”
― Beck Dorey-Stein, From the Corner of the Oval

“Don’t waste your time on people who make you cry. You’re not going to get what you want from them and you’re going to miss out on the fun in the meantime. That’s what I’m talking about.”
― Beck Dorey-Stein, From the Corner of the Oval

“I’ve believed in you since the moment I met you. I believe in myself now that I’ve finally left you.”
― Colleen Hoover, Regretting You

“The unique and magical nature of books is their ability to grant us temporary escape from our reality while also providing ways to cope with that reality when we’re forced to return to it.”
― Ellery Adams, The Whispered Word

“Today’s troubles is past now. Tomorrow will be better.”
― Sandra Brown, Rainwater

“Fear cripples our minds and breeds delusions.”
― Meredith Duran, A Lady's Code of Misconduct

“The foundation of reason is fact, and fact alone.”
― Meredith Duran, A Lady's Code of Misconduct

“Your face changes when you speak of your family,” Becca said. “It’s like the sun comes out inside you.”
― Ava Miles, Wild Irish Rose

“I need books like I need oxygen.”
― Ellery Adams, The Book of Candlelight

“There is no friend as loyal as a book. —Ernest Hemingway”
― Ellery Adams, The Book of Candlelight

“At my age I’ve long since stopped caring what others think.”
― Louise Penny, A Rule Against Murder

“The mind is its own place, can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven,”
― Louise Penny, A Rule Against Murder

“He had taught her to love reading, one of the greatest gifts a parent could give a child, and in doing so, he had opened the world to her.”
― Kristin Harmel, The Book of Lost Names

“anyone who saw the magic in books had to be good.”
― Kristin Harmel, The Book of Lost Names

“Once you’ve fallen in love with books, their presence can make you feel at home anywhere, even in places where you shouldn’t belong.”
― Kristin Harmel, The Book of Lost Names

“That's the power of literature, you know, it can act like little love letters between two people who can only explain their feelings by pointing at other people's.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People