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“Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime.”
― Mineko Iwasaki

“Let the darkness find you if it must. Throw off the quick and tempting escapes, and seek help only from those who would teach you to grow, feed your soul, embrace your heart, but would not steal away your journey.”
― Jennifer DeLucy

“A door loses its meaning if you don’t ever go through it. It becomes a wall.”
― Paul Pen, The Light of the Fireflies

“Maybe the day has come when his desire to know is stronger than his fear of the unknown.”
― Paul Pen, The Light of the Fireflies

“It's taken years for me to understand that dying doesn't end the story; it transforms it. Edits, rewrites, the blur, aand epiphany of one-way dialogue. Most of us wander in and out of one another's lives until not death, but distance, does us part-- time and space and heart's weariness are the blander executioners or human connection.”
― Gail Caldwell, Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship

“We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.”
― Ray Bradbury

“This was the image Angeline had of him at the time; always moving to the edges of some sort of celebration.”
― Amanda Coplin, The Orchardist

“He was to speak of her less often in the years to come... It made Angeline more resentful of the one who stayed away.”
― Amanda Coplin, The Orchardist

“Autumn leaves don't fall, they fly. They take their time and wander on this their only chance to soar.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“He still loved her, loved her more for her wrinkles because they could not defeat his need for her. Or his love. His young lust had turned to love and then his love had aged back into lust. It was a circle. It was a miracle. It was the alchemy of flesh. They ate only what they caught from the sea - wahoo, barracuda, and mahi mahi, and they ate what they picked from the trees - papaya, banana, and coconut. Don't forget cerveza from the bodega. They did not run, they walked. They needed nothing but themselves. This was them: They were.”
― David Duchovny, Bucky F*cking Dent

“Dogs were with us from the very beginning. And of all the animals that walked the long centuries beside us, they always walked the closest.”
― C.A. Fletcher, A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
― Elizabeth Appell

“I'm not going anywhere. I hope. It's been an adventure. We took some casualties over the years. Things got broken. Things got lost.
But I wouldn't have missed it for the world.”
― Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

“The prison is not outside, but inside each of us. Perhaps we simply don't know how to live without it.”
― Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

“Her heart was heavy because it was open, and so things filled it, and so things rushed out of it, but still the heart kept beating, tough and frighteningly powerful and meaning to shrug off the rest of her and continue on its own.”
― Helen Oyeyemi, Mr. Fox

“People just don't understand how many men it takes to build one good man. Next time you're in Manhattan and you see one of those mighty skyscrapers going up, pay attention to how many men are engaged in the enterprise. It takes just as many men to build a sturdy man, son, as it does to build a tower.”
― J.R. Moehringer, The Tender Bar: A Memoir

“I’m every girl who’s ever run from a man with a weapon, every girl who ever ran for her life across spaces where she was supposed to be safe. I crash into the next studio and I’m Julia running through her dorm, I’m Heather running down her high school halls, I’m Marilyn running through the Texas afternoon, I’m Dani running through a hospital, I’m Adrienne running through this camp, this camp where there will always be a girl running and screaming and screaming, and I’m Lynnette, running at last, and he can’t catch me, I’m as fast as all of us put together, I’m faster than Billy Walker, I’m faster than the Ghost, I’m faster than the entire Volker family, I’m the fastest girl in the world.”
― Grady Hendrix, The Final Girl Support Group

“Trust me,” I say. “I’ve seen things that make your porn look like Dora the Explorer.”
― Grady Hendrix, The Final Girl Support Group

“So, if you are too tired to speak, sit next to me for I, too, am fluent in silence.”
― R. Arnold