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“It struck her all at once that dealing with other human beings was an awful lot of work.”
― Anne Tyler, Back When We Were Grownups

“But it was easier, somehow, to reflect on them all from a distance than to be struggling for room in their midst.”
― Anne Tyler, A Spool of Blue Thread

“He was wondering if there was some cryptic, cultish mark on his door that told all the crazy people he'd have trouble saying no.”
― Anne Tyler, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant

“Everything,' his father said, 'comes down to time in the end--to the passing of time, to changing. Ever thought of that? Anything that makes you happy or sad, isn't it all based on minutes going by? Isn't sadness wishing time back again? Even big things--even mourning a death: aren't you really just wishing to have the time back when that person was alive? Or photos--ever notice old photographs? How wistful they make you feel? ... Isn't it just that time for once is stopped that makes you wistful? If only you could turn it back again, you think. If only you could change this or that, undo what you have done, if only you could roll the minutes the other way, for once.”
― Anne Tyler, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant

“The human digestive tract is like the Amtrak line from Seattle to Los Angeles: transit time is about thirty hours, and the scenery on the last leg is pretty monotonous.”
― Mary Roach, Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal

“The human head is of the same approximate size and weight as a roaster chicken.”
― Mary Roach, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

“You do not question an author who appears on the title page as "T.V.N. Persaud, M.D., Ph.D., D.Sc., F.R.C.Path. (Lond.), F.F.Path. (R.C.P.I.), F.A.C.O.G.”
― Mary Roach, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

“It takes a long time to grow an old friend, so I figure I better get moving.”
― Matt Labash

“I would never stoop so low as to be fashionable.”
― Dolly Parton

“When I cannot feel God’s love for me in my struggle, to have a friend grab my shoulder and say, “I love you, and I’m in this with you for the long haul” is, in some ways, an incarnation of God’s love that I would otherwise have trouble resting in.”
― Wesley Hill, Washed and Waiting: Reflections on Christian Faithfulness and Homosexuality

“No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Things never happen the same way twice.”
― C.S. Lewis, Prince Caspian

“You're never safe from being surprised until you're dead.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea

“Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”
― Mark Twain

“The only way to do all the things you'd like to do is to read”
― Tom Clancy

“I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring