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“It’s because you know that more is possible that you’ll always see the pointlessness in following a stupid rule or clocking in and out of a boring class. Most people can’t see that distinction, so they just do as they’re told. Of course, this makes them bored and irritated, but they think that’s the human condition. You and I are lucky enough to see that it doesn’t have to be that way.”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“With no sleep, the days took on the emotional cast—and the loud losses—of the night.”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“According to the poet, death wasn’t final, because life was tangled into it. Sylvie and her sisters walked the earth because of”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“He didn’t blame his wife for this conditional acceptance; he’d grown up with parents who’d never accepted him at all.”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“I like your mom a lot,” Carrie had said, “but anyone that dresses and does their hair as carefully as your mom does every single day is unhappy on the inside. She’s trying to hide all her messiness, and I want better than that for you.”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“Their mother was their safe space, and so, with her, they felt every iota of their feelings.”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“You know the quote about how the only reason for time is so everything doesn’t happen at once? I feel like everything that’s ever happened in my life is happening inside me.”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“All three girls are in their twenties now, and for all their evolution and ostensible liberation, they have no interest in a story that is not about a handsome, famous man. Still, I am their mother, and they understand that they will have to endure me in order to get to him. I take back my place on the sofa and begin again,”
― Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

“And so back I went, this time sliding into the long black car like someone who was used to it; the first time is luxury, the second time privilege.”
― Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

“It was like being a leaf in a river. I fell in and was carried along.”
― Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

“Only a few acres but still, we have pears and they will have to come off the trees. Everything does.”
― Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

“There is no explaining this simple truth about life: you will forget much of it. The painful things you were certain you’d never be able to let go? Now you’re not entirely sure when they happened, while the thrilling parts, the heart-stopping joys, splintered and scattered and became something else.”
― Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

“We clump together in our sorrow. In joy we may wander off in our separate directions, but in sorrow we prefer to hold hands.”
― Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

“She stayed with me after the rest of them had faded, maybe because we remember the people we hurt so much more clearly than the people who hurt us.”
― Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

“Funnily enough, this turned out to be the thing that saved me: the knowledge that I could get back by myself.”
― Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

“People are rotten everywhere you go. They’re no good. You want to see a very bad man? Make an ordinary man successful beyond his imagination. Let’s see how good he is when he can do whatever he wants.”
― Min Jin Lee, Pachinko

“These things happen in all families.”
― Min Jin Lee, Pachinko

“Oddly enough, all the talk of his inevitable death hadn’t discouraged him. He had become almost inured to death; his frailty had reinforced his conviction that he must do something of consequence while he had the time.”
― Min Jin Lee, Pachinko

“Cho hated seeing women cry. His grandmother, mother, wife, and daughters—all of them cried endlessly. Women cried too much, he thought.”
― Min Jin Lee, Pachinko

“The heartbreak in Kyunghee’s beautiful face was obvious, but her suffering and privation had made her finer in a way.”
― Min Jin Lee, Pachinko

“wasn’t uncommon to hear rationalizations of this sort—the longing to transform bad deeds into good ones. No one ever wanted to hear that God didn’t work that way;”
― Min Jin Lee, Pachinko

“Sins couldn’t be laundered by good results.”
― Min Jin Lee, Pachinko

“Isak needed to be protected like a fine piece of porcelain.”
― Min Jin Lee, Pachinko

“Sunja thought of her father, who had never said a cross word to her. He had taught her that children were a delight, that her boys were her delight.”
― Min Jin Lee, Pachinko

“You must be a diligent person with a humble heart. Have compassion for everyone. Even your enemies.”
― Min Jin Lee, Pachinko

“Hansu raised his eyebrows but said nothing. It was always better to say less.”
― Min Jin Lee, Pachinko

“He lived in that house because he needed to see her every day. He loved her. This would never change, he thought. His situation was impossible.”
― Min Jin Lee, Pachinko

“Listen, if people don’t like you, it’s not always your fault. My brother told me that.”
― Min Jin Lee, Pachinko

“The Bible said that a wise person must rein in his tongue. Not everything you wanted to say should be said.”
― Min Jin Lee, Pachinko