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“There is nothing sweeter in this sad world than the sound of someone you love calling your name.”
― Kate DiCamillo, The Tale of Despereaux

“Art should be truth; and truth, unadorned, unsentimentalized, is beauty.”
― Elizabeth Borton De Trevino, I, Juan de Pareja

“I had an alarm, I had nerve gas, I had a yogurt. What more could anyone want?”
― Janet Evanovich, One for the Money

“I was going to go to church, but I decided to get doughnuts instead.”
― Janet Evanovich, Four to Score

“No Ranger in sight. That's because he's in the wind. You can't see the wind. Or maybe the wind went home to watch Tuesday night fights.”
― Janet Evanovich, Four to Score

“Patrick actually used to be popular before Sam bought him some good music.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Nobody felt sad as long as we could postpone tomorrow with more nostalgia.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“She was the type who went to bars intent on conversation, while he was the type who went in hopes of being left alone.”
― Sue Grafton, S is for Silence

“Sometimes the fluffy bunny of incredulity zooms round the bend so rapidly that the greyhound of language is left, agog, in the starting cage.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“...where there's Hilo, oh, there's blissweed.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“Perpetual encagement endows any mirage of salvation with credibility.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“Sobering to think how one accursed night of baccarat can alter a man's social standing so irreversibly.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“Peace, though beloved of our Lord, is a cardinal virtue only if your neighbors share your conscience.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“It's true, reading too many novels makes you go blind.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“A Scot can turn a perfectly decent name into a head-butt.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“What wouldn't I give now for a never-changing map of the ever-constant ineffable? To possess, as it were, an atlas of clouds.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“I made it to Boxing Day because I was too miserable to hang myself. I lie. I made it to Boxing Day because I was too cowardly to hang myself.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“The uncreated and the dead exist solely in our actual and virtual pasts.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“It's a small world. It keeps recrossing itself.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“Writing is such a damn lonely sickness.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“The healthy can't understand the emptied, the broken.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“...now I'm a spent firework; but at least I've been a firework.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“It was my first clue that atheists are my brothers and sisters of a different faith. Like me, they go as far as the legs of reason will carry them - and then they leap. I'll be honest about it. It is not atheists who get stuck in my craw, but agnostics. Doubt is useful for awhile. We must all pass through the garden of Gethsemane. If Christ played with doubt, so must we. If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer, if He burst out from the Cross, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" then surely we are also permitted doubt. But we must move on. To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

“I did an about-face and veered into the sandwich shop. What I ordered is none of your business, but it was really good.”
― Sue Grafton, T is for Trespass

“How else can hopes go but up?”
― Cynthia Lord, Rules

“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.”
― Ira Glass

“The trouble with being too careful about your wishes, though, was that you could end up with a wish so shapeless that it could come true and you wouldn’t even know it, or it wouldn’t matter.”
― Lynne Rae Perkins, Criss Cross

“This was the danger of sharing your dreams with your parents. If you told them you wanted to learn to play the guitar, all they heard you say was, “I want to learn to play the guitar,” and then they found some practical, convenient, cheap way, often involving a church basement, for you to do it. But Hector had not come up with any plan of his own. And owning a guitar seemed like an important stepping stone on the way to being a guitar player. So he pawned his soul and said he would take the lessons from the Presbyterian youth minister. What the hell, he thought. Or heck, he thought. What the heck.”
― Lynne Rae Perkins, Criss Cross

“Lenny’s face was smiling, too. For a minute they were both ten years old. Time travel in real life.”
― Lynne Rae Perkins, Criss Cross

“His fingertips lightly and unintentionally grazed her face and her ears, and Debbie’s don’t-get-in-trouble self felt itself making room for her alert-alert-something-new-is-happening self.”
― Lynne Rae Perkins, Criss Cross