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“Kids took a fathomless amount of time and energy...And they took it first. They had right of first refusal on everything you had to offer. p220”
― Rainbow Rowell, Landline

“Dad's aren't optional. My dad wasn't optional."

"Because he was there...But if he wasn't there, your mom would have filled in the gaps. That's what moms do.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Landline

“The snow came up to the top of Georgie's calves - she had to lift her feet high to make any progress. Her ears and eyelids were freezing...God, she'd never even been able to imagine this much cold before. How could people live someplace that so obviously didn't want them?”
― Rainbow Rowell, Landline

“If you were standing next to the person you loved more than everything else, wasn't everything else just scenery?”
― Rainbow Rowell, Landline

“Note found in the patron suggestion box:
"You have SIGNS up near the computers that say BE QUIET, but people don't be quiet. They laugh out loud and talk out loud. Libraries used to be quiet, but they aren't anymore because you let all the assholes in!!!!!”
― Gina Sheridan, I Work at a Public Library: A Collection of Crazy Stories from the Stacks

“I'd rather do two hundred million things than listen to you.”
― Gina Sheridan, I Work at a Public Library: A Collection of Crazy Stories from the Stacks

“Love can't be taken back once it's given”
― Jodi Lynn Anderson, The Vanishing Season

“We are here to take chances, and fail, and keep trying.”
― Jodi Lynn Anderson, The Vanishing Season

“You don't feel like smiling? Then what? Force yourself to smile. Act as if you were already happy, and that will tend to make you happy.”
― Celeste Ng, Everything I Never Told You

“He'd learned that when you love someone purely enough, all you wanted was for that person to be happy. (p. 419)”
― Elin Hilderbrand, Summerland