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“Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

“Books can't live your life for you. The reader who forgets to walk on his own two feet is like an old encyclopaedia, his head stuffed with out-of-date information. Unless someone else opens it up, it's nothing but a useless antique.”
― Sōsuke Natsukawa, Il gatto che voleva salvare i libri

“I'm not going to die. I'm going to become eternity.”
― Naruki Nagakawa, She and Her Cat

“I don't fear death. It's no different from sleeping - it's like we practice dying every night.”
― Naruki Nagakawa, She and Her Cat

“My ears pricked up as her train passed by. The sound of a beating heart that made the world go round. This one unchanging pulse in the ever-changing world was a source of comfort to me. I couldn't do anything about her problems. I just lived my days at her side.”
― Naruki Nagakawa, She and Her Cat

“Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The body was smack in the middle of my freshly scrubbed kitchen floor. Fred the Funky Chicken, minus his head.”
― Sofie Kelly, Curiosity Thrilled the Cat

“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”
― William Styron, Conversations with William Styron

“I have come to love the hustle and bustle, the way it is possible to lose yourself in a city, to walk anonymously through its crowded streets; the sense of freedom that accompanies the fact that no one knows your name, or who your mother is, or what you bought at the shop yesterday.”
― Emily Critchley, One Puzzling Afternoon