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“Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“Funny, that no matter where you are in the world, there's always someone eager to help you destroy yourself.”
― James St. James, Party Monster: A Fabulous But True Tale of Murder in Clubland

“I always imagined that cats were the Paris Hiltons of the pet world: They didn't quite deserve all the attention but they got it anyway.”
― Sarah Andersen, Big Mushy Happy Lump

“Loneliness is a sign you are in desperate need of yourself.”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“Nostalgia is powerful. It is natural, human, to long for the past, particularly when we can remember our histories as better than they were.”
― Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist

“The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson

“trust your body it reacts to right and wrong better than your mind does”
― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers

“The first draft of anything is shit.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“remember the small things, and the big things will work themselves out.”
― Heather Morris, The Tattooist of Auschwitz

“Sometimes, you recognize truth because it destroys you for a bit.”
― Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater

“You don’t believe the sky is falling until a chunk of it falls on you.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Testaments

“Comics are a gateway drug to literacy.”
― Art Spiegelman

“In Canada, for eighteen days out of the year, if you don’t have an artificial heat source, you’ll die within forty-eight hours. Margaret Atwood and Northrop Frye said that this created, for Canadians, a “garrison mentality,” whereby the central conflict of much of our literature is man versus nature. That sort of conflict breeds cooperation more than it breeds rugged individualism. It breeds caution more than it breeds entrepreneurialism. It’s cold here. It’s so cold it can make you cry. It’s so cold you want your dad to come pick you up. Even when you’re fifty-three years old.”
― Mike Myers, Canada