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“All I ever really want to know is how other people are making it through life—where do they put their body, hour by hour, and how do they cope inside of it.”
― Miranda July, It Chooses You

“Was she terrifyingly beautiful? Was she so ignorant she didn't deserve the truth? Was she also a liar and thus it was something they did together? I don't believe in psychology; which says everything you do is because of yourself. That is so untrue. We are social animals, and everything we do is because of other people, because we love them, or because we don't.”
― Miranda July, No One Belongs Here More Than You

“Because no matter how wide you stretch your fingers, your hands will always be too small to catch all the pain you want to heal. Believe me, I've tried.”
― Sarah Kay, B

“Was her bravado a front, or did she truly have so little to lose? But she had a life, and life was a thing that could always be lost.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Darker Shade of Magic

“Kell stared at her, at a loss. Was her bravado a front, or did she truly have so little to lose? But she had a life, and a life was a thing that could always be lost.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Darker Shade of Magic

“Lila had never really bought into fate, but like most people who disavowed religion, she could summon a measure of belief when it was necessary.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Gathering of Shadows

“What is blindness? Where there should be a wall, her hands find nothing. Where there should be nothing, a table leg gouges her shin. Cars growl in the streets; leaves whisper in the sky; blood rustles through her inner ears. In the stairwell, in the kitchen, even beside her bed, grown-up voices speak of despair.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“Resentment is when I take poison and wait for you to die.”
― Rick Hanson, Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom