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“It’s hard not to want to go back to your normal life once you know how difficult it is to start again.”
― Fredrik Backman, Britt-Marie Was Here

“It's hard to leave anywhere. Even if the place sucked. It's hard to leave anywhere at all.”
― David Duchovny, Holy Cow

“Coming out of a book was always painful.”
― Abbi Waxman, The Bookish Life of Nina Hill

“Sometimes humanity is the reason we can't have nice things.”
― Mira Grant, Parasite

“You’re like everybody else: some people like you, some people don’t, and some have no feeling about it one way or the other.”
― Dashiell Hammett, The Thin Man

“Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an unread library.”
― John Waters

“Nina worried she liked being alone too much; it was the only time she ever fully relaxed. People were . . . exhausting.”
― Abbi Waxman, The Bookish Life of Nina Hill

“Being able to return to the books was a sanctuary for my heart.”
― Kim Michele Richardson, The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek

“One morning you wake up with more life behind you than in front of you, not being able to understand how it’s happened.”
― Fredrik Backman, Britt-Marie var här

“I used to have a lot of faith in humanity before the advent of the website "comment" section.”
― Jim Gaffigan, Dad Is Fat

“There's no need to wait for the bad things and bullshit to be over. Change now. Love now. Live now. Don't wait for people to give you permission to live, because they won't.”
― Kris Carr, Crazy Sexy Diet: Eat Your Veggies, Ignite Your Spark, and Live Like You Mean It!

“Leap, and the net will appear.”
― Julia Cameron, The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“There is freedom waiting for you,
On the breezes of the sky,
And you ask "What if I fall?"
Oh but my darling,
What if you fly?”
― Erin Hanson

“People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim that they're good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“After that, the book will fade, the way all books fade in your mind. But I hope you will remember this:
A man walking fast down a dark lonely street. Quick steps and hard breathing, all wonder and need. A bell above a door and the tinkle it makes. A clerk and a ladder and warm golden light, and then: the right book exactly, at exactly the right time.”
― Robin Sloan, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore

“Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
― Roald Dahl

“This is my religion—we’re all animals, perfect animals created in the infinite image and imagination of nature. It’s a life not without pain and competition and suffering, but it can be a life of dignity and mutual respect.”
― David Duchovny, Holy Cow

“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”
― Nora Ephron

“At a certain age almost all the questions a person asks him or herself are really just about one thing: how should you live your life?”
― Fredrik Backman, Britt-Marie Was Here

“She wonders how much space a person has left in her soul to change herself, once she gets older. What people does she still have to meet, what will they see in her, and what will they make her see in herself?”
― Fredrik Backman, Britt-Marie Was Here

“I want someone to know I’m here.”
― Fredrik Backman, Britt-Marie Was Here

“But in the end all he can manage to utter is: “I want you to know, Britt-Marie, that every time there’s a knock on my front door, I hope it’s you.”
― Fredrik Backman, Britt-Marie Was Here

“A plastic mug! Are we at war?”
― Fredrik Backman, Britt-Marie Was Here

“Always be reading. Go to the library. There’s magic in being surrounded by books. Get lost in the stacks. Read bibliographies. It’s not the book you start with, it’s the book that book leads you to. Collect books, even if you don’t plan on reading them right away. Filmmaker John Waters has said, “Nothing is more important than an unread library.” Don’t worry about doing research. Just search.”
― Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

“The problem with putting two and two together is that sometimes you get four, and sometimes you get twenty-two.”
― Dashiell Hammett, The Thin Man

“How do you feel?" "Terrible. I must've gone to bed sober.”
― Dashiell Hammett, The Thin Man

“Fat’ is usually the first insult a girl throws at another girl when she wants to hurt her.

I mean, is ‘fat’ really the worst thing a human being can be? Is ‘fat’ worse than ‘vindictive’, ‘jealous’, ‘shallow’, ‘vain’, ‘boring’ or ‘cruel’? Not to me; but then, you might retort, what do I know about the pressure to be skinny? I’m not in the business of being judged on my looks, what with being a writer and earning my living by using my brain…

I went to the British Book Awards that evening. After the award ceremony I bumped into a woman I hadn’t seen for nearly three years. The first thing she said to me? ‘You’ve lost a lot of weight since the last time I saw you!’

‘Well,’ I said, slightly nonplussed, ‘the last time you saw me I’d just had a baby.’

What I felt like saying was, ‘I’ve produced my third child and my sixth novel since I last saw you. Aren’t either of those things more important, more interesting, than my size?’ But no – my waist looked smaller! Forget the kid and the book: finally, something to celebrate!

I’ve got two daughters who will have to make their way in this skinny-obsessed world, and it worries me, because I don’t want them to be empty-headed, self-obsessed, emaciated clones; I’d rather they were independent, interesting, idealistic, kind, opinionated, original, funny – a thousand things, before ‘thin’. And frankly, I’d rather they didn’t give a gust of stinking chihuahua flatulence whether the woman standing next to them has fleshier knees than they do. Let my girls be Hermiones, rather than Pansy Parkinsons.”
― J.K. Rowling

“Instead of finding a boyfriend, like Esther had instructed, I decided I would hit up the next best thing. The bookstore.”
― Vivien Chien, Death by Dumpling

“Laws about females never make a lick of sense because they’re made and run by men and meant to keep us in bondage.”
― Kim Michele Richardson, The Book Woman's Daughter