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“That's the secret. If you always make sure you're exactly the person you hoped to be, if you always make sure you know only the very best people, then you won't care if you die tomorrow.”
― Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I'm Home

“As long as you read this poem I will be writing it.”
― Alden Nowlan, Alden Nowlan: Selected Poems

“I am practicing being kind over being right.”
― Matthew Quick, The Silver Linings Playbook

“It all goes away. Eventually, everything goes away.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“We're always lucky," I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood. There was wood everywhere in that apartment to knock on too.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast

“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“That's the problem with being born in New York, the old newsman observed a little sadly. You've got no New York to run away to.”
― Amor Towles, Rules of Civility

“The longer I do yoga, the worse I get at it.”
― Claire Dederer

“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
― Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature

“The stairs creaked. They always creaked when creaking could lead to your death, and they never creaked when creaking didn’t matter.”
― Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas: You Are Destined To Be Together Forever

“CUSTOMER: I’d like to buy this audiobook.
BOOKSELLER: Great.
CUSTOMER: Only, I don’t really like this narrator.
BOOKSELLER: Oh.
CUSTOMER: Do you have a selection of narrators to choose from? Ideally, I’d like Benedict Cumberbatch”
― Jen Campbell, More Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops

“Reader's Bill of Rights

1. The right to not read

2. The right to skip pages

3. The right to not finish

4. The right to reread

5. The right to read anything

6. The right to escapism

7. The right to read anywhere

8. The right to browse

9. The right to read out loud

10. The right to not defend your tastes”
― Daniel Pennac

“What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“What if the opposite of good wasn't bad? What if the opposite of good was real?”
― Claire Dederer, Poser: My Life in Twenty-three Yoga Poses

“No one quite believed in God and no one quite didn't.”
― Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories

“High on their posthumous pedestals, the dead become hard to see.”
― Anne Fadiman

“Mothers took their mothering so seriously now.”
― Liane Moriarty, Big Little Lies

“She'd never believed in God, except when she heard children singing.”
― Liane Moriarty, Big Little Lies

“I'm not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“I believe when you’re speaking English, you’re allowed to refer to it as Prague.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

“Clark liked to think he knew London but the truth was he'd spent most of his adult life in New York, secure within the confines of Manhattan's idiot-proof grid, and on this particular evening London's tangle of streets was inscrutable.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

“The disorientation of meeting one’s sagging contemporaries, memories of a younger face crashing into the reality of jowls, under-eye pouches, unexpected lines, and then the terrible realization that one probably looks just as old as they do.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

“She watched his gaze flicker over her suit, her gleaming shoes, and realized he was performing the same reconciliations she was, adjusting a mental image of a long-ago spouse to match the changed person sitting before him.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

“He remembered being here with Clark at three or four or sometimes five in the morning, during what seemed at the time like adulthood and seemed in retrospect like a dream.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

“he had an idea—too sentimental to speak aloud and he knew none of his divorced friends would ever own up to it—that something must linger, a half-life of marriage, some sense memory of love even if obviously not the thing itself. He thought these people must mean something to one another, even if they didn’t like one another anymore.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

“When I was a child, which was a shorter period of time for me than it was for most people, my mother sometimes implied that she might take me with her if she decided to consummate her romance with Death. My mother is beautiful, and to anyone who never lived with her, she seems to be a genteel and pleasant lady, if slightly aloof.”
― Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas: You Are Destined To Be Together Forever

“It was a very Corsican wine and you could dilute it by half with water and still receive its message.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast

“The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“It is an important and popular fact that things are not always what they seem. For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy