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“Home is people. Not a place. If you go back there after the people are gone, then all you can see is what is not there any more.”
― Robin Hobb, Fool's Fate

“Every small, unselfish action nudges the world into a better path. An accumulation of small acts can change the world.”
― Robin Hobb, Fool's Fate

“We can all of us be hurt, and no one is exclusively safe from worry and sadness.”
― Patrick deWitt, The Sisters Brothers

“when I see you, I feel the same. It is when I am away that I lose myself.”
― Patrick deWitt, The Sisters Brothers

“We carry within ourselves the direction our lives will take. Within ourselves burn the timeless, fateful stars.”
― Antal Szerb, Journey by Moonlight

“For you, a thousand times over”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“Don’t you want to be alive before you die?”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“The blankets had fallen off and I stared down at her white back, the shoulder blades sticking out as if they wanted to grow into wings, poke through that skin. Little blades. She was helpless.”
― Charles Bukowski, Post Office

“I would have to learn to live in a different way, seeing death as an imposing itinerant visitor but knowing that even if I'm dying, until I actually die, I am still living.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

“Her eyes sparkled. “You should try calling, ‘Here, kitty, kitty, kitty.’”
“I will kill you and nobody will find your body.”
― Ilona Andrews, Magic Triumphs