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“This is the thing, I think often, that never occurs to you when you consider what it would be like to lose someone you love. That you would miss not just the flowers and kisses, but the totality of the experience. You miss the failures and little evils with as much desperation as you miss being held in the middle of the night.”
― Cody McFadyen, Shadow Man

“Just because you don’t experience prejudice in your everyday doesn’t stop it from existing for the rest of us.”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

“stay out of the sun or you'll never get a husband”
― Isabel Cañas, The Hacienda

“You can be sorry about something and not regret it.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“When a person who works retail has a day off we don't do nothing for nobody unless you ask nice.”
― Louise Erdrich, The Sentence

“For the king knows that in order to dominate other cultures, you must capture not only their lands, crops and assets but also their collective imagination, their shared memories.”
― Elif Shafak, There Are Rivers in the Sky

“Words are like birds, when you publish books you are setting caged birds free. They can go wherever they please. They can fly over the highest walls and across vast distances, settling in mansions of gentry, in farmsteads and laborers' cottages alike. You never know whom those words will reach, whose hearts will succumb to their sweet songs.”
― Elif Shafak, There Are Rivers in the Sky

“Better to be a gentle soul than one consumed by anger, resentment and vengeance. Anyone can wage war, but maintaining peace is a difficult thing.”
― Elif Shafak, There Are Rivers in the Sky

“The world would have been a much more interesting place if everyone was given a chance to meet their ancestors at least for an hour in their lifetime.”
― Elif Shafak, There Are Rivers in the Sky

“Books, like paper lanterns, provide us with a light amidst the fog.”
― Elif Shafak, There Are Rivers in the Sky

“people fall into three camps: those who hardly, if ever, see beauty, even when it strikes them between the eyes; those who recognize it only when it is made apparent to them; and those rare souls who find beauty everywhere they turn, even in the most unexpected places.”
― Elif Shafak, There Are Rivers in the Sky

“What did it mean to acknowledge that this land had been stolen when no one had any intention of giving it back?”
― J Courtney Sullivan

“I do not know how to begin to explain to her how risible it is for Henry to accuse me of working too hard when he is the one who has set my tasks.”
― Kat Dunn

“It was bewildering, how closely grief ran alongside joy.”
― Eowyn Ivey, Black Woods Blue Sky

“Windows are expensive; that's how people show you that they are rich.”
― Amanda Peters

“I lived my entire childhood in the shadow of infant ghosts.”
― Amanda Peters, The Berry Pickers

“My heart is a haunted house surrounded by a moat of my own digging, kept empty of warmth so I won't miss it come winter.”
― Laura Steven, Our Infinite Fates

“Life gives us grief like mounds of wet clay,
Ripe and heavy beneath our reluctant hands,
And with it we can do one of three things.

We can carry it with us whenever we go,
Stooped beneath its awful weight,
We can shove it to the back of a wardrobe,
Buried beneath an old waxed coat,
Or we can make something beautiful,
And let it live on beyond us.”
― Laura Steven, Our Infinite Fates

“If people are songs
Written in the major or the minor key,
Then you, my dear, are major.

A climb, a crescendo, a thousand trumpets.
A clashing of cymbals, joy and awe,
Rousing, reaching, always to the stars.

And I am but a dirge, a requiem, a lamentation,
A melancholic harp in D minor,
Forever wondering why you chose me.”
― Laura Steven, Our Infinite Fates