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“One of the things that makes a dead leaf fall to the ground is the bud of the new leaf that pushes it off the limb.”
― Jan Karon

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.”
― Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses

“I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.”
― Chaim Potok, The Chosen

“Is there anywhere else to sleep tonight... Anywhere?' I pleaded.
There's Mei's office, but you'll have to sleep on the floor I'm afraid.' Mei was one of the Ward 9D dietitians.
'I'll sleep on the floor any day. I'm used to it back in the Islands,' I laughed tiredly.
I settled down on the floor. The three rugs I had brought to cushion my back worked surprisingly well. It was almost more comfortable than the thin mats on the cold concrete floors of the fales in Samoa. The idea of sleeping in someone's office was the best idea I had had all year. I decided that I would keep this secret to myself.”
― Ta'afuli Andrew Fiu

“If there is one thing I'd learned about hospitals, it's that they aren't interested in healing you. They are interested in stabilizing you, and then everyone is supposed to move on. They go to stabilize some more people, and you go off to do whatever you do. Healing, if it happens at all, is done on your own, long after the hospital has submitted your final insurance paperwork.”
― Eric Nuzum, Giving Up the Ghost: A Story About Friendship, 80s Rock, a Lost Scrap of Paper, and What It Means to Be Haunted

“A man cannot realize that above such shattered bodies there are still human faces in which life goes its daily round. And this is only one hospital, a single station; there are hundreds of thousands in Germany, hundreds of thousands in France, hundreds of thousands in Russia. How senseless is everything that can ever be written, done, or thought, when such things are possible. It must be all lies and of no account when the culture of a thousand years could not prevent this stream of blood being poured out, these torture chambers in their hundreds of thousands. A hospital alone shows what war is.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

“We are Craiglockhart's success stories. Look at us. We don't remember, we don't feel, we don't think - at least beyond the confines of what's needed to do the job. By any proper civilized standard (but what does that mean now?) we are objects of horror. But our nerves are completely steady. And we are still alive.”
― Pat Barker, The Ghost Road

“The world is come upon me, I used to keep it a long way off, But now I have been run over and I am in the hands of the hospital staff.”
― Stevie Smith, Selected Poems of Stevie Smith

“The sun is shining, mynah birds are chattering, palm trees are swaying, so what. I'm in the hospital and I'm healthy. My heart is beating as it should. My brain is firing off messages that are loud and clear. My wife is on the upright hospital bed, positioned the way people sleep on airplanes, her body stiff, head cocked to the side. Her hands on her lap.”
― Kaui Hart Hemmings, The Descendants

“The music in his laughter had a way of rounding off the missing notes in her soul.”
― Gloria Naylor, Linden Hills

“When I shop the world gets better, the world is better; and then it's not anymore and I have to do it again.”
― rebecca bloomwood

“Instead of cursing the darkness, try to fix the lamp.”
― Muhammad Adb Al-Rahman Al-Arifi, Enjoy Your Life

“The very name Impressionism is taken from an Atlantic Ocean painting - that of Monet, of sunrise in the harbor of Le Havre, done in 1872.”
― Simon winchester

“Hope is the universal currency of a recession. Invest it wisely!”
― Paul Guildea

“The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.”
― Jane Addams

“I had always been clever, I had always been outspoken. I had always been well read; I just had to be that. My plan was simple. My notion was that no man wanted a wife who was cleverer than him, and spoke boldly enough to show the world that was.”
― Marina Fiorato, Beatrice and Benedick

“The street was full, as it was in Manhattan at all times. Most of our companions on the road were yellow cabs”
― Elliott Hall

“Summer sunlight slants from the east, a million sparkles on the ocean. That first morning here, life was perfect. But underneath my skin, a vague uneasiness grew. This would not last forever.”
― A.J. Banner, The Twilight Wife

“But I couldn't. If I cried, they would want to know why, and I couldn't tell them.”
― Leah Cypess, Thornwood

“No," he admitted. "I didn't anticipate that. But, you know. People who walk into enchanted castles have no right to expect things to go according to plan.”
― Leah Cypess, Thornwood

“The prospect of seeing them no more, contributed greatly to calm her agitation, and, taking up a book, she composed herself to read.”
― Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby

“In their reveries, they had all been superheroes. But recently, Don had begun to question that, They had been anything but heroic. More like feral, frightened animals - jacked up on adrenaline, hash, and uppers - getting by on firepower, cunning and ruthlessness. Killing without thought, surviving. Making mistakes, sometimes pushing much too far.”
― Jay Newman, Undermoney

“They don't want to be grown-ups. They're so rich they don't think they have to get old. They lived down here when they were twenty-three and they want to relive their bohemian days, except not crammed into a tiny apartment with roommates who never flush the toilet. I didn't have bohemian days. I worked.”
― Jay Newman, Undermoney

“So I'm living this life. Maybe, someday, I'll be able to choose another. For now, I can't. What keeps me sane - so to speak - is that I can listen. And you should too. You might think you can ignore people like me. But there are a lot of us. It's in your interest to hear what we're saying.”
― Jay Newman, Undermoney

“With their cheerless titles, who would want to read them?”
― Donna McDonald

“You'd better watch out for gopher holes, Tory. That's a very high horse you are standing on.”
― Nora Roberts, Carolina Moon

“Abracadabra! Fiddle-fee-fee!
Open this book and read it to me!”
― Katharine Holabird, Twinkle and the Wishing Wand: Ready-to-Read Level 2

“His body never held a bruise for very long; the patchwork map of color would fade quickly from his skin, like lamplight spreading outward, shades of ink and violet and rust and egg yolk”
― Renee Branum, Defenestrate