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“She lived her life believing in the power of simplicity. Whether it had to do with fashion, work or relationships, she used to say, "Boil it all down to what counts the most: What is the essence of what you are trying to do, what is the most important thing? Things only get complicated when you are trying to address too many issues.”
― Sean Hepburn Ferrer, Audrey Hepburn, An Elegant Spirit

“When no one understands, that's usually a good sign that you're wrong.”
― Victoria Schwab, Vicious

“I watch you, and it's like watching two people.”
― Victoria Schwab, Vicious

“Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down, before they knew their endings.”
― Kate Morton, The House at Riverton

“There is nothing more terrifying than the absoluteness of one who believes he's right.”
― Libba Bray, The Diviners

“We all have our weaknesses.”
“I know,” said Iko. “Mine is shoes.”
― Marissa Meyer, Cinder

“Mirrors have an uncanny way of telling the truth.”
― Marissa Meyer, Cinder

“Some stains never came out.”
― Marissa Meyer, Cinder

“I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Parents and children. The simplest relationship in the world and yet the most complex. One generation passes to the next a suitcase filled with jumbled jigsaw pieces from countless puzzles collected over time and says, ‘See what you can make out of these.”
― Kate Morton, The Clockmaker’s Daughter

“I have learned that one must forgive oneself the past or else the journey into the future becomes unbearable”
― Kate Morton, The Clockmaker's Daughter

“I'm a fucking final girl”
― Riley Sager, Final Girls

“Never let anyone make you feel ordinary.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“People think that intimacy is about sex. But intimacy is about truth. When you realize you can tell someone your truth, when you can show yourself to them, when you stand in front of them bare and their response is 'you're safe with me'- that's intimacy.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“The bodies in my floor all trusted someone. Now I walk on them to tea.”
― Victoria Schwab, A Darker Shade of Magic

“I love you, Kell, but I had no interest in matching tattoos.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Darker Shade of Magic

“To say that men can be bullheaded would be insulting to the bull.”
― Julia Quinn, The Duke and I

“Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.”
― Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles

“Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.”
― Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles

“If the fact will not fit the theory - let the theory go”
― Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles

“Just because the rest of us don’t wear our hearts on our sleeves, just because we have found a way of managing our feelings – it doesn’t mean they’re not there.”
― Lucy Foley, The Guest List

“But, you know, that feeling? When you wake up in the morning and you have somebody to think about? Somewhere for hope to go? It's good. Even when it's bad, it's good.”
― Casey McQuiston, One Last Stop

“Big dick energy is gender-neutral”
― Casey McQuiston, One Last Stop

“Sometimes,” he says gently, when she’s finished, “the emotions of living something the first time prevent us from seeing the true picture, don’t they?” He rubs at his beard. “If I could go back – the things in my life that I would just stand and truly, fully witness, if I knew how they were going to turn out . . .”
― Gillian McAllister, Wrong Place Wrong Time