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“Because more than anything, her mother had wanted to stand out; because more than anything, her father had wanted to blend in. Because those things had been impossible.”
― Celeste Ng, Everything I Never Told You

“He pushed her in. And then he pulled her out. All her life, Lydia would remember one thing. All his life, Nath would remember another.”
― Celeste Ng, Everything I Never Told You

“It has been so long since he thought of his wife as a creature of want.”
― Celeste Ng, Everything I Never Told You

“—So it is not your fault if people have a problem with you. That is just who you are. —Something like that.”
― Sylvain Neuvel, Sleeping Giants

“We almost always can point to that hundredth blow, but we don’t always mark the ninety-nine other things that happen before we change.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, All the Crooked Saints

“This is the way of our work: We cannot help but color it with the paint of our feelings, both good and bad.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, All the Crooked Saints

“To marry was to say you believed in the future and in the past, too—that history and tradition and hope could stay knit together to hold you up.”
― Paula McLain, The Paris Wife

“Knowing that he should impress Bob meant that Ernest was ineluctably drawn to offend him.”
― Paula McLain, The Paris Wife

“They’re trying to kill me. Death by indignity, the nastiest kind of all.”
― Paula McLain, The Paris Wife

“It sounds like caveman stuff to me. If he keeps you in animal skins, tending the cook fire, no other man will see you, let alone want you.”
― Paula McLain, The Paris Wife

“I didn’t quite know what to say. Kitty was one of the most poised and self-confident women I’d ever known, and here she was knocked off her feet and set spinning.”
― Paula McLain, The Paris Wife

“People belong to each other only as long as they both believe. He’s stopped believing.”
― Paula McLain, The Paris Wife

“Kids with anxiety issues were in psychic pain, and nobody knew that better than he did. Anybody could be pushed over the edge, given the right circumstances.”
― Lisa Scottoline, Every Fifteen Minutes

“Normal was the simple wish of everyone with a mental illness. Normal was what everyone else, the worried well, took for granted.”
― Lisa Scottoline, Every Fifteen Minutes

“So just to clarify, I always have my vagina with me. It's like my american express card.”
― Jenny Lawson, Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir

“Sam O’Neill drew a deft little caricature of the two of us as Mulder and Scully (I still have it, somewhere) and Cassie stuck it to the side of her computer, next to a bumper sticker that said BAD COP! NO DOUGHNUT!”
― Tana French, In the Woods

“I worry that I might come out of hypnosis with that sugar-high glaze of self-satisfied enlightenment, like a seventeen-year-old who’s just discovered Kerouac, and start proselytizing strangers in pubs.”
― Tana French, In the Woods

“Often the discrepancy works for us: people don’t know who to worry about, the little girl with the gun or the big guy apparently without, and the distraction of deciding keeps them off balance.”
― Tana French, In the Woods

“In violence, it is the getting away that you concentrate on. When you begin to go over the edge, life receding from you as a boat recedes inevitably from shore, you hold on to death tightly, like a rope that will transport you, and you swing out on it, hoping only to land away from where you are.”
― Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

“Something so divine that no one up in heaven could have made it up; the care a child took with an adult.”
― Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

“Ruth did not believe in makeup. She thought it demeaned women.”
― Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

“She thought of sex as the Star Trek transport. You vaporized and found yourself navigating another planet within the second or two it took to realign.”
― Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

“It was not so much, she would write in her journal, that she wanted to have sex with women, but that she wanted to disappear inside of them forever. To hide.”
― Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

“In the walls of my sex there was horror and blood, in the walls of hers there were windows.”
― Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

“Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that. You forget some things, dont you? Yes. You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“The blackness he woke to on those nights was sightless and impenetrable. A blackness to hurt your ears with listening.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“Where you've nothing else, construct ceremonies out of the air, and breathe upon them.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didnt believe in that. Tomorrow wasnt getting ready for them. It didnt even know they were there.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“Where men cant live gods fare no better. You’ll see. It’s better to be alone. So I hope that’s not true what you said because to be on the road with the last god would be a terrible thing so I hope it’s not true. Things will be better when everybody’s gone.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“I love diet soda; when I drink juice or regular soda it makes my blood sugar spike and I act like a cracked out Rachael Ray, but without the helpful household tips.”
― Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?