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“Why are man hole covers around?" If you don't knwo the answer to the questions, you're not smart enough to work at microsoft”
― Malcolm Gladwell

“...the moment you begin to believe you're worthy of the good things in your life - God gets all Old Testament on your ass and does something vicious, something insane, something totally uncalled for. He gives you lupus or He allows Satan to slaughter your children and cattle or He delivers Ohio to George W. Bush.”
― Dan Savage, The Commitment: Love, Sex, Marriage, and My Family

“The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“Life is what happened when all the 'what-ifs' didn't . . . .”
― Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

“Happiness is a risk. If you’re not a little scared, then you’re not doing it right.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, The Peach Keeper

“That which we manifest is before us; we are the creators of our own destiny. Be it through intention or ignorance, our successes and our failures have been brought on by none other than ourselves.”
― Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain

“. . .you sounded frustrated and pissed off and amazingly happy”
― Kristin Hannah, Firefly Lane

“The human spirit, you know what they say about the human spirit? Is is harder than a rock and more delicate than a flower petal.”
― Nadia Hashimi, The Pearl That Broke Its Shell

“There is some kiss we want with
our whole lives, the touch of
spirit on the body. Seawater
begs the pearl to break its shell.
and the lily, how passionately
it needs some wild darling! At
night, I open the window and ask
the moon to come and press its
face against mine. Breathe into
me. Close the language door and
open the lovers window. The moon
won’t use the door, only the window.”
― Rumi

“Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

“. . .there is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is variation of theft.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“Having a baby is like getting a tattoo on your face. You really need to be certain it's what you want before you commit.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.

A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then leave.

A soul mates purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light can get in, make you so desperate and out of control that you have to transform your life, then introduce you to your spiritual master...”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“Zen masters say you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“Follow your inclination. It will take you to thoughts you'd never know you'd had”
― Rachel Simon, The Story of Beautiful Girl

“she realized it was not the rereading that led to fresh insights. It was the rereader—because when a person is changing inside, there are inevitably new things to see”
― Rachel Simon, The Story of Beautiful Girl

“Raising kids isn't carpentry," he said "Forget measuring twice and cutting once, You measure over and over everyday”
― Rachel Simon, The Story of Beautiful Girl

“Being brave doesn't mean you're never afraid. Being brave means that, even though you're scared, you still do what you should do.”
― Judith McNaught, Night Whispers

“Life is not a paragraph, and death is no parenthesis.

(This is a reference to an E.E. Cummings poem within the author's work)”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“Hollowness: that I understand. I'm starting to believe that there isn't anything you can do to fix it. That's what I've taken from the therapy sessions: the holes in your life are permanent. You have to grow around them, like tree roots around concrete; you mold yourself through the gaps”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?”
― Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

“Books can be possessive, can't they? You're walking around in a bookstore and a certain one will jump out at you, like it had moved there on its own, just to get your attention. Sometimes what's inside will change your life, but sometimes you don't even have to read it. Sometimes it's a comfort just to have a book around. Many of these books haven't even had their spines cracked. 'Why do you buy books you don't even read?' our daughter asks us. That's like asking someone who lives alone why they bought a cat. For company, of course.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, The Sugar Queen

“Loss is more than just death, and grief is the gray shape-shifter of emotion.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller

“Every great love starts with a great story...”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

“True love is like bread. It needs the right ingredients, a little heat, and some magic to rise.”
― Jodi Picoult

“There is no impending moment, no past moment, only this one, and without past there is no sorrow, and without furture there can be no loss.”
― Carol Cassella, Oxygen

“Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can't remember who we are or why we're here.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

“There is nothing perfect...only life.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

“It is so much less exhausting. You only forgive once. To resent you have to do it all day, every day. You have to keep remembering the bad things.”
― M.L. Stedman, The Light Between Oceans