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“Some people stay broken. Some pick up the pieces and put them back together with all the sharp edges showing.”
― Dot Hutchison, The Butterfly Garden

“Not making a choice is a choice. Neutrality is a concept, not a fact. No one actually gets to live their lives that way.”
― Dot Hutchison, The Butterfly Garden

“Time can change relationships like the sea reshapes the sand.”
― Alice Feeney, Rock Paper Scissors

“All people are addicts, and all addicts desire the same thing: an escape from reality. My job just happens to be my favorite drug.”
― Alice Feeney, Rock Paper Scissors

“I wish people were more like books. If you realize halfway through a novel that you aren’t enjoying it anymore, you can just stop and find something new to read. Same with films and TV dramas. There is no judgment, no guilt, nobody even needs to know unless you choose to tell them. But with people, you tend to have to see it through to the end, and sadly not everyone gets to live happily ever after.”
― Alice Feeney, Rock Paper Scissors

“why people only learn to live in the moment when the moment has passed.”
― Alice Feeney, Rock Paper Scissors

“Changing love into hate is a much easier trick than turning water into wine.”
― Alice Feeney, Rock Paper Scissors

“After he found himself reading the same paragraph three times, and the words still didn’t enter his brain on any cognitive level, he finally gave up and resigned himself to a bad night.”
― T.J. Payne, Intercepts

“When no one understands, that’s usually a good sign that you’re wrong.”
― V.E. Schwab, Vicious

“None of the relationships I have ever formed with another human being feel real to me. More like a series of missed connections.”
― Alice Feeney, His & Hers

“We rarely deserve the lives we lead. We pay for them however we can, be it with money, guilt, or regret.”
― Alice Feeney, His & Hers

“I’m trying to resist you,” he murmurs. “You have no idea how badly I’m trying.”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher

“I married Eve because it was expected of me to settle down. I never met anyone genuinely special before. And now I’m thirty-eight, and I’m meeting my soulmate for the first time, and she’s only sixteen.”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher

“One of the worst things you could do to someone in the midst of tragedy was to give them a cliché, because the intensity of the loss was too big. I’d heard it all after James died. Sometimes it was better to say nothing.”
― Lucinda Berry, When She Returned

“Traumatic grief was groundless, a free fall into space. Unless you’d been there before, you couldn’t understand what it felt like.”
― Lucinda Berry, When She Returned

“Her AI paediatrician had suggested”
― John Marrs, The Family Experiment

“The grass wasn’t greener on the other side, he was sure of that. It was greener on the hills and lush vineyards that surrounded him every single day of his second chance at life.”
― John Marrs, The Family Experiment

“If snow melts down to water, does it still remember being snow?”
― Jennifer McMahon, The Winter People

“I’ve never feared death, Enzo. I’m only afraid to live and it all be for nothing.”
― H.D. Carlton, Does It Hurt?

“If worshiping you is what you ask, I’d be happy to spend the rest of my life on my knees,”
― H.D. Carlton, Does It Hurt?

“The group leader looked as though she were silently counting to ten, a tactic she might have learned in her social work program,”
― Ashley Audrain, The Push

“When life gives you lemons, steal a fucking juicer.”
― Monty Jay, The Lies We Steal

“We are homesick most for the places we have never known.”
― Blake Crouch, Recursion

“You can only rearrange the furniture of your life a number of times before things look the same as they did.”
― Alice Feeney, Beautiful Ugly

“Wives think their husbands will change but they don’t. Husbands think their wives won’t change but they do.”
― Alice Feeney, Beautiful Ugly

“But I don’t want a child. I’ve been honest about that since we met, long before we got married. Think about the world we live in. Humanity is broken, you write about that fact every day, why would you want to bring a child into this world? Children are expensive and high-maintenance and they don’t come with an off switch. None of our friends with kids are happy and they all look permanently exhausted.”
― Alice Feeney, Beautiful Ugly