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“Even when this world is a forgotten whisper of dust between the stars, I will always love you.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Empire of Storms

“I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.”
― Simone de Beauvoir

“Come," Vasya said. "Will you bear me to the ends of the earth, if the road will take us so far?”
― katherine arden, The Bear and the Nightingale

“People think that intimacy is about sex. But intimacy is about truth. When you realize you can tell someone your truth, when you can show yourself to them, when you stand in front of them bare and their response is "you're safe with me" - that's intimacy.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“Heartbreak is a loss. Divorce is a piece of paper.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“People are messy, and love can be ugly. I’m inclined to always err on the side of compassion.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“No one is just a victim or a victor. Everyone is somewhere in between. People who go around casting themselves as one or the other are not only kidding themselves, but they’re also painfully unoriginal.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“The knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks means that you are, ever after, secure in your ability to survive. You will never truly know yourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both have been tested by adversity. Such knowledge is a true gift, for all that it is painfully won, and it has been worth more than any qualification I ever earned.”
― J.K. Rowling, Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination

“This is the wreck it left behind. I should have seen it. I should have seen how she loves as hard as I do. Only I think it pins her down where it picks me up".”
― Rory Power, Wilder Girls

“You loved all of it—the good and the bad?”
I smiled a bit. “Especially the bad.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin

“Some things don’t belong to other people,” she says, tired and drifting. “Some things are just mine.”
― Rory Power, Wilder Girls

“And will you come with me; On this adventure - and all the rest?"

"Always”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin

“Humor was a form of survival, since it created a necessary psychic distinction from slavery.”
― Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

“But where does the silence that neglects her end, and where does the silence that respects her begin?”
― Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

“To be indebted is to fixate on the future (Page 186)”
― Cathy Park Hong

“But where does the silence that neglects her end, and where does the silence that respects her begin? The problem with silence is that it can’t speak up and say why it’s silent. And so silence collects, becomes amplified, takes on a life outside our intentions, in that silence can get misread as indifference, or avoidance, or even shame, and eventually this silence passes over into forgetting.”
― Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

“My term “minor feelings” is deeply indebted to theorist Sianne Ngai, who wrote extensively on the affective qualities of ugly feelings, negative emotions—like envy, irritation, and boredom—symptomatic of today’s late-capitalist gig economy. Like ugly feelings, minor feelings are “non-cathartic states of emotion” with “a remarkable capacity for duration.”
― Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

“Omnia mutantur, nihil interit, everything changes, nothing perishes. - on the overpass arch in the Skull and Bones building.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent

“Why didn't these people ever get it? Protect your own. Pay your debts. There was no other way to live, not if you wanted to live right. - Alex Stern”
― Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent

“Every human being was the result of a million different factors mixing together - one of a million sperm arriving at the egg at exactly a certain time; even a millisecond off and another entirely different person would result. Good things and bad - every friendship and romance formed, every accident, every illness - resulted from the conspiracy of hundreds of little things, in and of themselves inconsequential.”
― Angie Kim, Miracle Creek

“And I was struck, again, as an outside observer, by how much the members of our species needed one another. All these people are out in the cold rain. To Laugh and drink. To talk about nothing. It was almost as if that need for connection and touch was our... their.. lifeblood.”
― Blake Crouch, Upgrade

“Humans have had 300,000 years on this planet. We lived from the stone-age to the space age We split the atom and sequenced our own DNA and built machines that could think. But for all our progress, ten million people die of hunger every year. We have hyperloops and rampant nativism. Phones more power than the computer that took us to the moon but no more coral reefs. And year after year, nothing changes.”
― Blake Crouch, Upgrade

“What do you call a heart that is simultaneously full and breaking? Maybe there's no word for it, but for some reason, it makes me think of rain falling through sunlight”
― Blake Crouch, Upgrade

“In the absence of compassion, selfishness is the most rational response”
― Blake Crouch, Upgrade

“Find what you love and let it kill you.”
― Colleen Hoover, Verity

“A dreamer,” scorns her mother.

“A dreamer,” mourns her father.

“A dreamer,” warns Estele.

Still, it does not seem such a bad word.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“Freedom is a pair of trousers and a buttoned coat.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“Her melodies at the heart of a hundred songs. Ideas taking root, growing wild, the seeds unseen.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“Food is one of the best things about being alive. Not just food. Good food. There is a chasm between sustenance and satisfaction, and while she spent the better part of three hundred years eating to stave off the pangs of hunger, she has spent the last fifty delighting in the discovery of flavor. So much of life becomes routine, but food is like music, like art, replete with the promise of something new.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“In the photo, we all look so . . . happy. I remember seeing that picture and realizing that photographs weren't real. There's no context, just the illusion that you're showing a snapshot of a life, but life isn't snapshots, it's fluid. So photos are like fictions. I loved that about them. Everyone thinks photography is truth, but it's just very convincing lie.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue