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“Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.”
― August Wilson

“We’re all damaged. It’s a universal component of the human condition, like the stages of grief, deja vu, and expired coupons.”
― Tim Dorsey, Nuclear Jellyfish

“If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“Look at the mess we've got ourselves into,' Colonel Aureliano Buendia said at that time, 'just because we invited a gringo to eat some bananas.”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Cien años de soledad

“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.”
― James Sherman

“It all points to the fact that my identity isn’t binary.

It’s multifaceted.

And maybe I can let go of the sting and resentment of the path not taken, because the path not taken isn’t just the inverse of who I am. It’s an infinitely branching system that represents all the permutations of my life between the extremes of me[.]”
― Blake Crouch, Dark Matter

“Life: it’s as simple as a square boxing ring. When you’re in it, you can only fight like hell and hope you’re still standing when you hear the gong.”
― Martin Holmén, Down for the Count

“The heart is not a cart horse that can be shackled any old way you like.”
― Martin Holmén, Down for the Count

“Fin looked at him squarely. "Sometimes there are things about yourself that you just don't want to talk about." "Why?" "Because talking about them makes you think about them, and thinking about them hurts”
― Peter May

“We are so connected that we have become disconnected. We can’t have a thought, we have to have an opinion. Freedom of speech has gone too fucking far when we feel the need to share everything. When we filter the image of ourselves but feel no need to filter what we say out loud, hidden behind a new status and picture of ourselves when we were twenty pounds lighter.”
― Will Carver, Nothing Important Happened Today

“The prospective jumper doesn't realise. He's wrapped up in himself and what he intends to do. But, then, somebody stops. And they don't really know what they are doing. They're not a trained negotiator or counsellor. But they have been a human being for their entire life.”
― Will Carver, Nothing Important Happened Today

“It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

“How can anyone live a whole life different parallel to the one shared with someone?”
― Heine Bakkeid, Jeg skal savne deg i morgen

“It is so real, this dream sequence, so intense, that when I wake, or drop back into reality, it is as though I have just walked through the wrong door and my body is filled with panic”
― Heine Bakkeid, Jeg skal savne deg i morgen

“We must believe in our souls that we are somebody, that we are significant, that we are worthful, and we must walk the streets of life every day with this sense of dignity and this sense of somebody-ness.”
― Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys