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“In Britain, people don’t seem too worried about a possible end twenty billion years in the future. You can do quite a lot of eating, drinking and being merry before that.”
― Stephen Hawking, Brief Answers to the Big Questions

“they failed to conclude the obvious: that the Ripper targeted women while they slept.”
― Hallie Rubenhold, The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

“the world is made of endlessly intersecting stories, each one valid and true.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

“She gasped as his mouth closed over her nipple”
― Jessica Thorne, Mageborn

“With pockets, women could conquer the world!”
― Theodora Goss, The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter

“Knees were an unpleasant place to have the nervous sweats.”
― Gwenda Bond, Stranger Things: Suspicious Minds

“he raised her short skirts, parted her thighs and, dragging his lazy member from inside his trousers, thrust into her. He climaxed quickly and unsatisfactorily,”
― Rose Black, The Unforgetting

“You’re not happy unless you think you’re happy.”
― Gretchen Rubin, The Best of the Happiness Project Blog: Ten Years of Happiness, Good Habits, and More

“There were only so many pieces of your heart that could be damaged before it irrevocably changed you.”
― Lydia Kang, A Beautiful Poison

“Every seven years each cell in your body has changed,”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

“A reading major, that’s what he wants. No response papers, no exams, no analysis, just the reading.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

“The human body is weird like that. When you relax for a moment, that’s when the physical burnout catches up with you.”
― Hanna Jameson, The Last

“Humans have a very clear idea about how to behave, and on many occasions actually do. But it’s sometimes disheartening that correct action is drowned out by endless chitter-chatter, designed not to find a way forward but to justify petty jealousies and illogically held prejudices.”
― Jasper Fforde, The Constant Rabbit

“Don’t let life’s unfairness, don’t let how poor you are decide who you are. You choose who you will be, Aladdin.”
― Walt Disney Company, Aladdin: A Whole New World

“But wealth isn’t a magic lamp that suddenly erases all your problems,”
― Walt Disney Company, Aladdin: A Whole New World

“Stop crying like a man and woman-up a little bit,”
― Yanko Tsvetkov, Sex, Drugs and Tales of Wonder

“Don’t agonize over the past, because the past is gone. Don’t worry about the future, because the future is not yet here.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Silence: The Power of Quiet in a World Full of Noise

“You shouldn’t focus on the bad things,” he said. “Because you draw them toward you. Happiness is about focusing on good things and drawing those things toward you.”
― Rainbow Rowell, The Prince and the Troll

“LIFE HACK #538: Melt four KitKat Chunkys together with a warm knife for a fun way to forget you are crippled by loneliness.”
― Joe Lycett, Parsnips, Buttered: How to baffle, bamboozle and boycott your way through modern life

“My brilliant boy had figured out at this tender age something that it took me decades to grasp: that happiness is the goal.”
― Josiah Hartley, The Boy Between: A Mother and Son's Journey From a World Gone Grey

“Because that’s what they think of us, isn’t it? Vermin, corrupting their city.”
― Robert Dinsdale, Paris By Starlight

“if you see magic often enough it starts to look normal.”
― Matt Haig, To Be A Cat

“If people pick on you, they see something inside you that they are scared of. Something special,”
― Matt Haig, To Be A Cat

“If people pick on you, they see something inside you that they are scared of. Something special, which they might not have, which shines out of you like a jewel.”
― Matt Haig, To Be A Cat

“With our support, regeneration can become the predominant direction of the future evolution of this planet.”
― Christiana Figueres, The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis

“No one can make you feel bad about yourself without your consent.’ Which meant that you can’t control what people said about you, but you can control how you feel about what they said.”
― Matt Haig, To Be A Cat

“Life wasn't ever one ingredient. It was several. And some flavors were bad and some were good, but love was the strongest of all. If you were loved, you had everything.”
― Matt Haig, To Be A Cat

“Normal’ is a bedtime story – a fable – that humans tell themselves to feel better when faced with overwhelming evidence that most of what’s happening around them is not “normal” at all.”
― Deborah Harkness, The All Souls Complete Trilogy

“I had to wonder if men were so blinded by beauty that they would feel privileged to live their lives with an actual demon, so long as it was a beautiful demon.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“My goodness, Sayuri, you do look like a peasant!” he said.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha