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“Paradise: If communism is Paradise, why do we need barriers, walls, and laws to keep people from escaping?”
― Ruta Sepetys, I Must Betray You

“Good luck comes at a price. Bad luck is free.”
― Ruta Sepetys, I Must Betray You

“Some stories don’t have happy endings. Even love stories. Maybe especially love stories.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

“Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“How do you ever know for certain that you are doing the right thing?”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“We all come into existence as a single cell, smaller than a speck of dust. Much smaller. Divide. Multiply. Add and subtract. Matter changes hands, atoms flow in and out, molecules pivot, proteins stitch together, mitochondria send out their oxidative dictates; we begin as a microscopic electrical swarm. The lungs the brain the heart. Forty weeks later, six trillion cells get crushed in the vise of our mother’s birth canal and we howl. Then the world starts in on us.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“Some people are weak in some ways, sir. Others in other ways.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“His voice is low and soft, a piece of silk you might keep in a drawer and pull out only on rare occasions, just to feel it between your fingers.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“A line comes back to Marie-Laure from Jules Verne: Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“Stones are just stones and rain is just rain and misfortune is just bad luck.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“Merritt frowned and moved in step with her. “You make it sound like you’re not attending.” She peeked at him over her glasses. “I told you I was visiting BIKER today.” “I thought that was after.” Hulda clicked her tongue. “Two birds with one stone, Mr. Fernsby. I hardly think you need me holding your hand while you inquire about your property.” Merritt grinned. “Mrs. Larkin, are you flirting with me?” The morbid shock that covered her face made him laugh out loud. “Offering to hold my hand in a public place—”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, Keeper of Enchanted Rooms

“Maybe everything in her past had gone wrong because God or the fates or whatever was out there had known it wasn’t yet time for it to go right.”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, Keeper of Enchanted Rooms

“Beauty is just like a book. Some will not bother to look beyond the cover; others will find the entire tome utterly captivating.”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, Keeper of Enchanted Rooms

“I was determined to show him divers rugged points in my character before the ensuing four weeks elapsed: he should know fully what sort of a bargain he had made, while there was yet time to rescind it.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“I care for myself.  The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Don’t just wear your faith on your sleeve. Don’t just call yourself a Muslim and not represent any of its teachings. You’re not going to get away with that. This faith of ours isn’t just a declaration, it has to be a lifestyle choice.”
― Nouman Ali Khan, Revive Your Heart: Putting Life in Perspective

“When you don’t appreciate a daughter, it’s like you’re not appreciating your own mother, that’s where you came from.”
― Nouman Ali Khan, Revive Your Heart: Putting Life in Perspective

“They were at it again. Arguing. Shouting.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Great Alone

“As far as Leni could tell, adults were edgy in general, and no wonder.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Great Alone

“It was all she really wanted: someone to talk to.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Great Alone

“she’d sometimes wondered what good all those sorries were if nothing ever changed,”
― Kristin Hannah, The Great Alone

“She saw how death impacted people, saw the glazed look in their eyes, the way they shook their heads, the way their sentences broke in half as if they couldn’t decide if silence or words would release them from sorrow.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Great Alone

“A girl was like a kite; without her mother’s strong, steady hold on the string, she might just float away, be lost somewhere among the clouds.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Great Alone

“You could always tell when Dad was gone. Everything was easier and more relaxed in his absence.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Great Alone

“She made enough money to keep herself well stocked with film and books.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Great Alone

“A considerable period elapsed before I discovered one of the causes of the uneasiness of this amiable family: it was poverty, and they suffered that evil in a very distressing degree.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein

“I haven’t even eaten dinner yet, but at this point, I can’t decide if I want food or sleep more.”
― Marie Lu, Warcross

“Death has a terrible habit of cutting straight through every careful line you’ve drawn between your present and your future.”
― Marie Lu, Warcross

“It took my best engineers a week to do what you just did.” “Then maybe you need better engineers.”
― Marie Lu, Warcross