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“You can’t get an abortion if you’re having birds?”
― Emily Habeck, Shark Heart

“Feelings fled under pressure; feelings did not light the darkness. What remained strong in the deep, the hard times, was love as an effort, a doing, a conscious act of will. Soulmates, like her and Lewis, were not theoretical and found. They were tangible, built.”
― Emily Habeck, Shark Heart

“If you ever fall in love, you’ll be a person who was in love for the rest of your life.”
― Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

“Still, he can see the logic: mentally unhealthy people are contaminated in some way and possibly dangerous. If they don’t attack the woman behind the desk due to uncontrollable violent impulses, they might breathe some kind of microbe in her direction, causing her to dwell unhealthily on all the failed relationships in her past.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“Not for the first time Marianne thinks cruelty does not only hurt the victim, but the perpetrator also, and maybe more deeply and more permanently. You learn nothing very profound about yourself simply by being bullied; but by bullying someone else you learn something you can never forget.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“answer comes there none, then more power to you (especially if you are planning an electrocution).”
― Rupert Holmes, Murder Your Employer

“If answer comes there none, then more power to you (especially if you are planning an electrocution).”
― Rupert Holmes, Murder Your Employer

“I hope you will come to better understand and appreciate the remarkable frailty of all life… and that you will learn to live each day as if it might be your enemy’s last.”
― Rupert Holmes, Murder Your Employer

“I love Twilight even more than cheese, but I can withhold my TED Talk on why Alice and Bella should have left all those idiots behind and ridden off into the sunset. Team Bellice 4evah.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Love, Theoretically

“Haute couture by Chuck Norris.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Love, Theoretically

“the masses are getting poorer while Jeff Bezos ruthlessly profits off my desperate need for one-day shipping of dill-pickle lip balm.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Love, Theoretically

“She stares at me like a vaguely displeased gargoyle,”
― Ali Hazelwood, Love, Theoretically

“I’m positive that a mallard must have flown in and eaten Cece’s brain.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Love, Theoretically

“You are either the friendliest man on the planet,” I say, “or a world-class serial killer.” “Why not both?”
― Emily Henry, Funny Story

“You can’t force a person to show up, but you can learn a lesson when they don’t.”
― Emily Henry, Funny Story

“Slow, soft, familiar. A relief of a kiss, and over way, way too soon, though from the way Petra is gawking at us, you’d think we’d just performed a handstanding sixty-nine in front of God and everyone.”
― Emily Henry, Funny Story

“Life’s short enough without us talking ourselves out of hope and trying to dodge every bad feeling. Sometimes you have to push through the discomfort, instead of running.”
― Emily Henry, Funny Story

“The future is wide and wild and full of promise, but it is precarious, too. Seize on every opportunity that comes your way and cling to it, lest it be washed back out to sea.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“Normally, I’d rather roll down a mountainside covered in broken glass and sticky traps than create conflict,”
― Emily Henry, Happy Place

“Imagine if several times a day, all at once, every single thing around you became impossible to ignore.”
― Marcus Kliewer, We Used to Live Here

“otherworldly buttes”
― Blake Crouch, Upgrade

“Grief takes people in odd ways,” said Imogene, lighting another lamp. “Though compulsive book-buying isn’t one I’ve heard of before.”
― T. Kingfisher, A Sorceress Comes to Call

“It was important to keep his face exactly neutral. He froze his eyes and eyebrows and lips and mouth and cheeks. He tried hard to go into a coma.”
― Laurie Frankel, This Is How It Always Is

“If you don’t worry about something until it’s already a problem,” said Rosie, “that’s not worry. That’s observation.”
― Laurie Frankel, This Is How It Always Is

“Love follows you. It goes where you go. It doesn’t know about social divides or distance or common sense. It doesn’t even stop when the person you love dies. It does what it wants.”
― Abby Jimenez, Part of Your World

“Because sometimes family isn’t what you’re born into. Sometimes family is found.”
― Abby Jimenez, Part of Your World

“The Giver of Stars by Amy Lowell Hold your soul open for my welcoming. Let the quiet of your spirit bathe me With its clear and rippled coolness, That, loose-limbed and weary, I find rest, Outstretched upon your peace, as on a bed of ivory.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Giver of Stars

“Shut your fat mouth for once in your life, you old goat.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Giver of Stars

“He needed safety and I needed some kind of familiar comfort. I’m not sure how we decided on Denny’s but that’s where we wound up.”
― David Wong, John Dies at the End

“Sorry, Dave. My grandpa used to tell me, toward the end when he was going crazy, that talking through a dog ain’t like talking through a sausage.”
― David Wong, John Dies at the End