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“And I feel certain there must be a second set of laws, inscrutable but real, that governs exactly how much a particular individual can give to and receive from another. Some hydrology of human generosity. Because there are these gifts we can make to one another freely, reflexively, with no sting of loss; and there are gifts we fight to relinquish, beg to get.”
― Karen Russell, Sleep Donation

“We need to get some fauns up in this piece.”
― Lev Grossman

“Far more perversions arise from repression than from expression”
― Brandi Lynn Ryder, In Malice, Quite Close

“For a few seconds they looked silently into each other's eyes, and the distant and impossible suddenly became near, possible, and inevitable.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“Now one often saw only her face and body, while her soul was not seen at all.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“And I want to be happy. Like, seventy to eighty percent of the time. I want to be actively, thoughtfully happy.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Landline

“The world was almost at the point of forgetting what a fine time people can have helping one another. That people like to work together and to kick back after work and share their experiences. What would happen if our foreign policy centered on the cultivation of joy rather than pain? she thought.”
― Alice Walker, Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart

“Why risk the rare happy marriage—rarer still, a love marriage that endures—for something as common and as toxic as complete, unthinking, transparent honesty?”
― William Landay, Defending Jacob

“Toddling with pants down into our uncertain future.”
― Kayla Rae Whitaker, The Animators

“It is the kind of day designed for wood fires, and mugs of tea, and well-loved books.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“Truth and lies were both tools, to be used when most necessary.”
― Tasha Suri, The Jasmine Throne