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“What can't be cured must be endured.”
― Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children

“Salmon. Salmon, salmon, salmon, salmon. I eat so much salmon at these weddings, twice a year I get this urge to swim upstream.”
― David Nicholls, One Day

“Americans thrive on mobility and feel shrunken in spirit when they do not have it.(Odd Thomas)”
― Dean Koontz, Forever Odd

“If I had a view like this to look down on every day, I would have the energy and inspiration to conquer the world. The trouble is, when you most need such a view, no one gives it to you.”
― Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad

“You say that you lost your child. You know how I feel then. You know that, don't you? It's a sadness that never goes away.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, Tears of the Giraffe

“But if there's one thing I've learned in life it's this: assume makes an ass out of 'u' and 'me”
― Karen Marie Moning, Darkfever

“Because failure isn't an option if success is just a matter of more effort.”
― W. Bruce Cameron, A Dog's Purpose

“Humanity is a parade of fools, and I am at the front of it, twirling a baton.”
― Dean Koontz

“How delightful it is to be here.(Gym) If only one could spend one's entire life in this state of easygoing physical democracy.”
― Christopher Isherwood, A Single Man

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
― Albert Einstein

“…God is a giant quiltmaker. With an infinite variety of designs. And the quilt is grown so big and confusing, the pattern is impossible to see, the squares and diamonds and triangles don’t fit well together anymore, it’s all become meaningless. So He has abandoned it.”
― Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance

“A substantial daily intake of alcohol was the perfect way to stay in shape.”
― Simon Napier-Bell, I'm Coming To Take You To Lunch: A Fantastic Tale of Boys, Booze and how Wham! Were sold to China

“A kite can't really fly free,that's just an expression. In order to soar high in the sky the string of a kite needs to be anchored. If the string breaks the kite drops back to the ground. The kite's freedom depends on it not being as free as he thinks it is.”
― Simon Napier-Bell, I'm Coming To Take You To Lunch: A Fantastic Tale of Boys, Booze and how Wham! Were sold to China

“My change from girl to boy was far less dramatic than the distance anybody travels from infancy to adulthood.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

“Hunger is the best seasoning.”
― Ken Follett, The Pillars of the Earth

“When you're thinking, please remember this: excessive pride is a familiar sin, but a man may just as easily frustrate the will of God through excessive humility.”
― Ken Follett, The Pillars of the Earth

“You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.”
― Annie Proulx

“For Archie was an expert in dividing the affairs of life into men's business and women's business. An empty cupboard and a full plate were the man's business, a full cupboard and an empty plate the concern of the woman.”
― E. Annie Proulx, The Shipping News

“Nobody looks good in their darkest hours. But it's those hours that make us what we are.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Faefever

“Her absence in my life was so painful that it was a presence.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Faefever

“When the woman you live with is an artist, every day is a surprise.”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

“In one aspect, yes, I believe in ghosts, but we create them. We haunt ourselves.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls

“If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, Labyrinth

“Grief, he said, is carnivorous.”
― Dennis Lehane, Sacred

“We all have our crosses to bear.”
― Dennis Lehane, Sacred

“Fear is only good when you have a choice in things.”
― Anne Rice, Beauty's Release

“Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts”
― Jose Saramago

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Angie was where most of me began and all of me ended.”
― Dennis Lehane, Sacred

“If you take two steps towards God,' he used to tell me, 'God runs to you!”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi