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“So even very young she saw slavery as an ancient practice arising because rich people would rather not do hard work, and also from the tendency of people to clench hard to advantageous passages in the Bible and dismiss the rest.”
― Charles Frazier, Varina

“But he also knew praying was more to steady the person than inform the deity.”
― Louise Penny, Kingdom of the Blind

“Hope itself wasn’t necessarily kind. Or a good thing.”
― Louise Penny, Kingdom of the Blind

“Utah. She has followed back roads from Las Vegas, capital of clueless sinners, toward Salt Lake, capital of cunning saints.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory

“Armand nodded. “She fell far from the tree.”
― Louise Penny, The Madness of Crowds

“He leans forward, his folded arms sliding on the table. “That’s not true. That would be the most terrible loneliness.”
― Maggie Shipstead, Great Circle

“People’s wishes for their own lives tend to outweigh others’ ideas about how they should behave.” She paused. “We must bend in the wind sometimes, Jamie. So much is beyond our control.”
― Maggie Shipstead, Great Circle

“I’m only saying it’s easy enough to tell others to be brave when you’ve always chosen the safest path.”
― Maggie Shipstead, Great Circle

“Thanks to Hitler, we are no longer living in a world that cares about the death of someone because they were loved in the past. It cares only if that death can do damage to the future. It’s a grim truth, Sidney. Like Orpheus leaving Hades, we are rushing headlong into the light of a terrible new world.”
― Christopher Fowler, Full Dark House

“The closer you are to death, the more attached you become to life,”
― Christopher Fowler, Full Dark House

“Loneliness was not something to overcome, but something to befriend and look into.”
― Ronan Hession, Leonard and Hungry Paul

“waver; I just wanted to do what all my straight friends were doing, tie the knot, and get on with my life. But the low-key option wasn’t available to me.”
― Ari Shapiro, The Best Strangers in the World: Stories from a Life Spent Listening—A Poignant Journey Through Journalism, Global Connections, and Human Resilience in Today's World

“Human beings, as I know better than most, can get used to anything. Over time, even the unthinkable gradually wears a little niche for itself in your mind and becomes just something that happened.”
― Tana French, In the Woods

“The wonder is that you could start life with nothing, end with nothing, and lose so much in between.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

“Of course,” said Orkideh. “It seems very American to expect grief to change something. Like a token you cash in. A formula. Grieve x amount, receive y amount of comfort. Work a day in the grief mines and get paid in tickets to the company store.”
― Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!