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“Milo pushed the scene from his mind. He refused to think about it. Qian’s words echoed to him: “A mind that dwells in the past builds a prison it cannot escape. Control your mind, or it will control you, and you will never break through the walls it builds.”
― A.G. Riddle, The Atlantis Plague

“Elrond,” Bruce said. “The Council of Elrond. From Lord of the Rings. It’s the meeting where they decide to destroy the One Ring.”
“Jesus,” Annie said. “None of you got laid in high school, did you?”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

“You can’t trauma-proof life, and you can’t hurt-proof your relationships. You have to accept you will cause harm to yourself and others. But you can also fuck up, really badly, and not learn anything from it except that you fucked up. It’s the same with oppression. You don’t gain any special knowledge from being marginalized. But you do gain something from stepping outside your hurt and examining the scaffolding of your oppression.”
― Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

“Once you’ve fallen in love with books, their presence can make you feel at home anywhere, even in places where you shouldn’t belong.”
― Kristin Harmel, The Book of Lost Names

“Ani l’dodi v’Dodi li,”
― Kristin Harmel, The Book of Lost Names

“We must always keep moving forward.”
― Kristin Harmel, The Book of Lost Names

“The decisive question is this: Can we implement a policy to show the Arabs that it is better for them to reach a peace settlement or at least a ceasefire because wars with us will cost them dearly and they will not achieve their goal?” It was a question that remained unanswered.”
― Lawrence Wright, The Human Scale: A Novel

“of history suggested that holiness was magnified superstition, used mainly as an excuse for savagery. The Holy Land had been fought over through the millennia more than any other acreage in the world, one army after another, one belief against another, all in the effort to own God.”
― Lawrence Wright, The Human Scale: A Novel

“Grief. Israel was created by a grieving people. If we had dealt with that, if we had accepted our suffering, we might have found happiness, if such a thing exists for a nation. But we let our grief define us. All this rage, this depression, shame, this insistence on revenge—they are expressions”
― Lawrence Wright, The Human Scale: A Novel

“of a grief that is too big for us, too big for any people. And then we made the Palestinians in our image, a grieving and dispossessed people.”
― Lawrence Wright, The Human Scale: A Novel

“Peace is the acceptance of mutual surrender. Anything less is merely a truce.”
― Lawrence Wright, The Human Scale: A Novel

“He thought once again how weakness becomes dangerous when it seeks strength as a solution. Victims of oppression believe that their salvation is to become stronger than their enemy, more committed, more pious, and more ruthless, until they turn into the pitiless enemy that lives in their imagination. Lambs turn into”
― Lawrence Wright, The Human Scale: A Novel

“They were young, just married, they knew many in Vilnius who were not Jews. Friends. Neighbors. Came the Nazis with their death squads, but those same friends and neighbors did the job for them. They killed Jews in the town square. They killed them in their houses. They tied them up and drowned them in the river. They made the Jews dig pits and then shot them in their graves. Those few who tried to protect the Jews were also killed. They taught the Nazis not to neglect killing the women and children. They called this slaughter de-Jewification. Nowhere in Europe was the killing so complete. There were two hundred thousand Jews in Lithuania in 1941 and four years later only a handful survived, including my parents.”
― Lawrence Wright, The Human Scale: A Novel

“The right book could transport her to a different time and place. To a different world or mindset. The right story could transform her for a moment … or a lifetime.”
― Renée Ahdieh, Park Avenue

“lot of people believe that the opposite of anxiety is calm. Finding peace. I believe the opposite of anxiety is trust. Trust in a process, in an outcome, in a situation, or in a person. Ask yourself, ‘Where are my anxieties in this situation? Where are my anxieties under my control?’ Then you’ll find where the trust lies.” “The trust lies,” Jia murmured. “That’s an interesting way of phrasing it.”
― Renée Ahdieh, Park Avenue

“So while Parrish was working on the painting, he basically decided to troll his nemesis by painting John Jacob Astor as Old King Cole himself. And the reason all the courtiers around him look like they are trying to stop themselves from laughing is because … Old King Cole has just let one rip.” She finished with a loud fart noise, her tongue jutting diagonally from between her lips.”
― Renée Ahdieh, Park Avenue

“wondered if too much money might be the antithesis of happiness. Maybe it made it harder to find contentment. After all, everything in life couldn’t be glitzy or polished to perfection. Real life wasn’t meant for a curated highlight reel. Perhaps it was important to bear witness to both ends of a spectrum to appreciate the experience of either one. Like a superhero slogan about how the darkest nights gave rise to the brightest dawns.”
― Renée Ahdieh, Park Avenue

“Loss and grief are the price for living and loving. And when grief comes to take its pound of flesh, we fight back, for we do not wish to suffer. When instead we should hand over our payment, gladly.”
― Renée Ahdieh, Park Avenue

“Dreaming is essential to life. If we cannot dream, we cannot believe. If we cannot believe, we cannot trust. If we cannot trust, then we cannot live a life of meaning.”
― Renée Ahdieh, Park Avenue

“Worry about it when it happens, Gail would say, instead of obsessing over every possible outcome beforehand.”
― Renée Ahdieh, Park Avenue

“Backpfeifengesicht.”
― Renée Ahdieh, Park Avenue

“Kyen no rizika, no rozika. Whoever doesn’t laugh, doesn’t bloom.”
― Elizabeth Graver, Kantika

“But we also want our children to have a future, and for our grandchildren to grow up safe and not feel ashamed.”
― Elizabeth Graver, Kantika

“They’re always here. Your people will always be with you, whether they’re living or passed on. It doesn’t matter; they’ll always be around to look after you when times are hard or when you’re just feeling sad. Close your eyes and relax and call out to them in your mind, and they’ll be right there to comfort you and to remind you that you’re never alone. Your great-grandma Elmira knew all about that. I’ll tell you a story she told me a long time ago.”
― Charles B. Fancher, Red Clay

“Yes. Marriage, too, is a threshold between Before and After. We have many of these, every day, which we do not recognize. The threshold is not the question. There will always be Befores and Afters. The question is: what do you do after you cross that threshold?”
― Mary Robinette Kowal, The Calculating Stars

“more expensive, and social security runs out, and housing prices keep rising while minimum wage doesn’t, and what if they resent me for bringing them into all of this? “What if they just hate me? Not because of the state of the world, but just because they hate me. Or what if they’re sick? What if they join a cult, and I can’t convince them to come home? What if they start a cult? What if they get into some heinous shit, and I can’t love them anymore—or worse, I keep loving them even though I can’t change anything? “What if there’s another world war? Or what if…what if everything else goes right, but at the end of my life, they’re sitting in hospice with”
― Emily Henry, Great Big Beautiful Life

“Love isn’t something you can cup in your hands, and I have to believe that means it’s something that can’t ever be lost.”
― Emily Henry, Great Big Beautiful Life

“For the one you love? Anything. You unmake the world and build a new one. You do anything to give them what they need.”
― Emily Henry, Great Big Beautiful Life

“fronted by blank-faced men and women with rainbow hair, black-rimmed eyes, ripped leather, white lips, shredded chiffon, fishnets, studs, platforms, nose piercings, face piercings, dog collars, quiffs, drapes, net petticoats, peroxide, pink gingham, PVC thigh-high boots, pixie boots, baseball jackets, sideburns, beehives, ballgowns, black lips, red lips, chewing gum, eating”
― Lisa Jewell, The Family Upstairs

“eating a bacon roll, drinking tea from a floral teacup with a black-painted pinkie fingernail held aloft, holding a ferret wearing a studded leather lead.”
― Lisa Jewell, The Family Upstairs