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“I’ve never seen faith move mountains, but I’ve seen what it can do to skyscrapers.”
― Monica McGee

“It also meant she thought of books as medication and sanctuary and the source of all good things. Nothing yet had proven her wrong.”
― Abbi Waxman, The Bookish Life of Nina Hill

“Being with you is as good as being alone.”
― Abbi Waxman, The Bookish Life of Nina Hill

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.”
― Soren Kierkegaard

“Never give up on your friends. Never give up your faith in them. It's when everything is worse than you could ever imagine it could be, that you'll need your friends the most.”
― Graeme Rodaughan, The Dragon's Den

“We should’ve known better, as students of the universe. There’s no escaping entropy.”
― Becky Chambers, To Be Taught, If Fortunate

“We're all crazy, I believe, just in different ways.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

“Choosing a lover is a lot like choosing a therapist. We need to ask ourselves, is this someone who will be honest with me, listen to criticism, admit making mistakes, and not promise the impossible?”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

“Why do things have to be so complicated?” “Ah, the eternally wise words of Avril Lavigne.”
― Alice Oseman, Loveless

“How could I feel so sad about giving up these things that I did not actually want?”
― Alice Oseman, Loveless

“You can stop splitting the atom; you can stop visiting the Moon; you can stop using aerosols; you may even decide not to kill entire populations by the use of a few bombs. But you cannot recall a new form of life. —Erwin Chargaff”
― Blake Crouch, Upgrade

“Once upon a different time, there was a girl who lived in a kingdom of death. Wolves howled up her arm. A whole pack of them—made of tattoo ink and pain, memory and loss. It was the only thing about her that ever stayed the same. Her story begins on a train.”
― Ryan Graudin, Wolf by Wolf

“I have been trying, for some time now, to find dignity in my loneliness. I have been finding this hard to do.”
― Maggie Nelson, Bluets

“It is easier, of course, to find dignity in one’s solitude. Loneliness is solitude with a problem.”
― Maggie Nelson, Bluets

“You could almost feel the fear in the air—a living thing. These poor people. They must have been scared out of their minds, wondering what psychotic twist of fate had brought this disease into their midst.”
― Blake Crouch, Upgrade

“Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.” -- Dorothy Parker”
― Brandon Massey, Nana

“We don’t have an intelligence problem. We have a compassion problem. That, more than any other single factor, is what’s driving us toward extinction.”
― Blake Crouch, Upgrade

“What do you call a heart that is simultaneously full and breaking? Maybe there’s no word for it, but for some reason, it makes me think of rain falling through sunlight.”
― Blake Crouch, Upgrade

“Clock time is our bank manager, tax collector, police inspector; this inner time is our wife. — J.B. Priestley, Man and Time”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone. shirley jackson The Haunting of Hill House”
― Stephen King, 'Salem's Lot

“A bank robbery. A hostage drama. A stairwell full of police officers on their way to storm an apartment. It was easy to get to this point, much easier than you might think. All it took was one single really bad idea.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“Zara nodded skeptically and asked: “Have any of your patients ever committed suicide?”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“what you didn’t know kept you safe. What you added could trip you up.”
― Stephen King, The Institute

“And always let your conscience be your guide.” —Blue Fairy”
― Stephen King, Fairy Tale

“The door beside him opened sharply and Glokta snapped his head round, doing his best to hide a grimace as his neck bones crunched. Lord Ingelstad stood”
― Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings

“Exley thinks I bought law school with bribe money. I said four men, shotguns, Junior Stemmons as co-boss. Exley: “Jackets and ties; this will end up”
― James Ellroy, White Jazz

“Will could see the tightness around Gared’s mouth, the barely suppressed anger in his eyes under the thick black hood of his cloak. Gared had spent forty years in the Night’s Watch, man and boy, and he was not accustomed to being made light of.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“My wet nurse said the same thing, Will,” Royce replied. “Never believe anything you hear at a woman’s tit. There are things to be learned even from the dead.” His voice echoed, too loud in the twilit forest.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Around midnight, her eyes at last took shape. The look in them was feline, half determined and half tentative—all trouble. Yes, they were just right, those eyes. Rising up to her fine, elegant brow, inches from the dark cascade of her hair.”
― Lauren Kate, Fallen