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“The afterlife is a tax office, and everyone wants their rebate.”
― Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

“Everything is useless, intrinsically. Nothing has value unless we grant it that value.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

“I pray that my days will be long at your side. Let me fill and satisfy every longing in your soul.”
― Rebecca Ross, Divine Rivals

“Let our breaths twine and our blood become one, until our bones return to dust. Even then, may I find your soul still sworn to mine.”
― Rebecca Ross, Divine Rivals

“I veer rhapsodic; my prose purples.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

“Books are letters in bottles, cast into the waves of time, from one person trying to save the world to another. Keep reading. Keep writing. Keep fighting. We’re all still here.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

“It’s always best to say less, to let others wonder where you’ve been and what you’ve seen and what you think. Let them imagine what could be. There’s great power in a mystery. Don’t spoil yours.”
― Rebecca Ross, Ruthless Vows

“I don’t know, Agnes. Because I tried to get us all in line when we thought he was dying, and it didn’t work. Because sometimes I think that allowing someone to bully us and pit us against each other while maintaining the financial upper hand isn’t the healthiest way for three sisters to relate to one another. And I think that in fact it is probably the key to a lot of our issues. I don’t know.” I think the key to a lot of our issues, Irene wanted to say, is that we just don’t like one another very much.”
― Julia Armfield, Private Rites