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“You don’t exist to make them feel better. That isn’t your role. It isn’t your responsibility.’ ‘But that’s what you do when you love someone. You support them. You help them. You make them feel better.’ ‘Not at the expense of your own happiness. Your own health.”
― Alex Stone, The Good Patient

“Heaven forfend, Martha! Conformity is a death sentence. No, my dear, you must embrace what makes you stand out. That’s what they despise. It’s the circle of hell in this life – blaming children for being who they are, because we were blamed and our parents before us. If you’re not harming anyone, why try to change who you are?”
― Evie Woods, The Lost Bookshop

“He’s mistaken having an amazing, supportive girlfriend for someone who’s weighing him down or hampering his potential.”
― Laura Starkey, The Spare Room

“He was from Yorkshire, or somewhere like that, and like many Northerners with issues, he’d moved to London as a cheap alternative to psychotherapy.”
― Ben Aaronovitch, Rivers of London

“The way he looked at it, he’d been born with all his fingers and toes, he didn’t have a harelip or a cauliflower ear or a limp of any kind - so to compensate for his lack of ill fortune, his parents had christened him Myron.”
― Harlan Coben, Deal Breaker

“He called his mother on the car phone and reassured her he was okay. She told him to call his father, he was the worried one. Myron called his father and reassured him he was okay. He told him to call his mother, she was the worried one. Great communication. The secret to a happy marriage.”
― Harlan Coben, Deal Breaker

“When her favorite coffee place on the corner was closed for a week, she could barely function. And it wasn’t for lack of caffeine. There was no shortage of coffee shops in the city, but none of them were hers. She’d been in a bad mood all week.”
― Laurie Gilmore, The Pumpkin Spice Café

“Have you heard of Facebook?’ she asks. I roll my eyes. Has anyone not heard of Facebook? ‘I’m eighty-six, I’m not dead.”
― Laura Pearson, The Last List of Mabel Beaumont

“The price of living a long life, I think, is the sheer weight of the losses you have to suffer. You carry each loved one you lose, and they stack up, and it becomes unbearable.”
― Laura Pearson, The Last List of Mabel Beaumont

“What do they want, these men? Because in one night I have been insulted for not having sex and for having too much of it. And neither of these things are reflective of the truth. Is this how it will always be?”
― Laura Pearson, The Day Shelley Woodhouse Woke Up

“Death to capitalism, and death to those who revel in it.”
― Iain Rob Wright, Maniac Menagerie

“It was the energy companies that created the term ‘Carbon Footprint’ in order to shift the economic burden onto the individual rather than take responsibility for it themselves. It was all one big game.”
― Iain Rob Wright, Maniac Menagerie

“Good people did exist, and the best of them never even realised how good they were.”
― A.M. Shine, Stay in the Light

“The horrifying scenario that she’d dreaded above all others – that canvas hanging forever in the back room of her mind, painted with a smeared palette of paranoia and hard fact – was now her reality.”
― A.M. Shine, Stay in the Light

“The implied pejorative of “up north” struck home.”
― Luanne G. Smith, The Raven Spell

“it did not matter the Midsummer moon above was as ripe as a woman in her ninth month.”
― Luanne G. Smith, The Raven Song

“The third in a series usually isn’t that great, so it’s not his fault.”
― Freida McFadden, The Housemaid Is Watching

“Sometimes I go into the woods and close my eyes and pretend I am anywhere other than England.”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, Wizard of Most Wicked Ways

“I thought about making myself a cup of tea and having a biscuit or two, make a bit of an event of it, but decided not.”
― Joanne Ryan, Don't Let Her In

“She lived, after all, in the highly bohemian quarter of Bloomsbury where, it was said, the artistic and intellectual set lived in squares but loved in triangles. She”
― Fiona Veitch Smith, The Picture House Murders