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“A girl comes of age against the knife. She must learn to bear its blade. To be cut. To bleed.”
― Tiffany McDaniel, Betty

“She was so Southern that she cried tears that came straight from the Mississippi, and she always smelled faintly of cottonwood and peaches.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, Garden Spells

“No star burns forever.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility

“There have been five great kisses since 1642 B.C...(before then couples hooked thumbs.) And the precise rating of kisses is a terribly difficult thing, often leading to great controversy.... Well, this one left them all behind.”
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride

“And from all of these pages upon pages, one thing I have learned is that there is just enough variety in human experience for every single person in a city the size of New York to feel with assurance that their experience is unique. And this is a wonderful thing. Because to aspire, to fall in love, to stumble as we do and yet soldier on, at some level we must believe that what we are going through has never been experienced quite as we have experienced it.”
― Amor Towles, The Lincoln Highway

“She was born to a woman as telling as a dream and to a man who was a Cherokee, a moonshiner, and a mythmaker.”
― Tiffany McDaniel, Betty

“Tell your father I said at the very least, the two of them owe me a song.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“What is a game?" Marx said. "It's tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow. It's the possibility of infinite rebirth, infinite redemption. The idea that if you keep playing, you could win. No loss is permanent, because nothing is permanent, ever.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“A year and an instant are equivalent in a monotonous life.”
― Hernan Diaz, In the Distance

“I have faith, because nature is the very best example of integration. Things grow differently when they’re damaged, showing us how to occupy strange new ground to bloom red instead of green. We can be found, brighter than before.”
― Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women

“The thirteen-year-old pirate. And the beekeeper that saved his life.”
― Chris Whitaker, All the Colors of the Dark

“Nothing about them fit. Nothing about them worked. She loved him entirely and absolutely.”
― Chris Whitaker, All the Colors of the Dark

“Maybe that's what being a parent is. Expanding to be more. Asking of yourself more, for them.”
― Charlotte McConaghy, Wild Dark Shore

“The wonder is that you could start life with nothing, end with nothing, and lose so much in between.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

“Sometimes a good day lasts all about 10 seconds.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

“Le tienen miedo a lo inútil. Todo tiene que tener un propósito. Odian el ocio, están enamorados del negocio. Le tienen miedo a la soledad. No saben estar solos.”
― Alejandro Zambra, Poeta chileno

“Unos seres nacen para vivir, otros para trabajar, otros para mirar la vida. Yo tenía un pequeño y ruin papel de espectadora. Imposible salirme de él. Imposible liberarme.”
― Carmen Laforet, Nada