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“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Help is help to anyone, Mary. Even if they don’t know they’re asking for it.”
― David Arnold, Mosquitoland

“love is what moves the world, I’ve always thought … it is the only thing which allows men and women to stand in a world where gravity always seems to want to pull them down … bring them low … and make them crawl … we were … so much in love …”
― Stephen King, The Stand

“For the greatest fear of death is always that it will pass us by. And leave us there alone.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

“Being a parent makes you feel like a blanket that’s always too small. No matter how hard you try to cover everyone,”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

“It doesn’t take a lot to be able to let go of your child. It takes everything.”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

“The love a parent feels for a child is strange. There is a starting point to our love for everyone else, but not this person. This one we have always loved, we loved them before they even existed.”
― Frederik Backman

“Because not all monsters were monsters in the beginning. Some are monsters born of sorrow.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Sends Her Regards and Apologises

“To a parent, your child wasn’t just a person: your child was a place, a kind of Narnia, a vast eternal place where the present you were living and the past you remembered and the future you longed for all existed at once.”
― Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere

“Loss is loss. Heartbreak is heartbreak. You think I’m sitting here gloating. Telling myself that my suffering beats yours? Hurt is hurt. You don’t measure these things.”
― Stephanie Kallos, Broken for You

“Most of the time, everyone deserves more than one chance. We all do things we regret now and then. You just have to carry them with you.”
― Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere

“All you hear these days is that everything’s going to hell in a handcart, how everybody’s a pedophile or a crook, and it’s not true. You forget that the world is full of ordinary decent people like yourselves, Good Samaritans who’ll stop and help a soul in need.”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

“Too much hard luck can create a permanent meanness of spirit in any creature.”
― Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle

“Other people’s judgments were meaningless unless you allowed them to mean something.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Rules of Magic

“I just do the best I can to face what life brings. That’s the secret, you know. That’s the way you change your fate.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Rules of Magic

“Life is a mystery, and it should be so, for the sorrow that accompanies being human and the choices one will have to make are a burden, too heavy for most to know before their time comes. He came home plastered, nearly unconscious,”
― Alice Hoffman, The Rules of Magic

“Tough, yet brittle. That’s the thing about being really hard. When you do break, you shatter.”
― Laura Lippman, Sunburn

“Keeping busy is the best defense against feeling sad. It’s simple, but it’s”
― Tara Conklin, The Last Romantics

“You only live once, and no one has any idea how long that once is going to be, so grab on tight and hold on for the ride and don’t worry about it and don’t look back.”
― Suzanne Redfearn, In an Instant

“Nothing is a cliche when you’re living it.”
― Ben Lerner, The Topeka School

“he says we don’t know how much our bodies can endure until we make cruel demands of them.”
― Jason Rekulak, Hidden Pictures