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“I was exhausted, and even though I knew it’d be my last night in my own bed, I fell asleep right away and didn’t wake up until Mother called me at five-thirty the next morning. Fortunately, it wasn’t as hot as Sunday; a warm rain fell throughout the day. The four of us were wrapped in so many layers of clothes it looked as if we were going off to spend the night in a refrigerator, and all that just so we could take more clothes with us. No Jew in our situation would dare leave the house with a suitcase full of clothes. I was wearing two vests, three pairs of pants, a dress, and over that a skirt, a jacket, a raincoat, two pairs of stockings, heavy shoes, a cap, a scarf and lots more. I was suffocating even before we left the house, but no one bothered to ask me how I felt.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

“At seven-thirty we too closed the door behind us; Moortje, my cat, was the only living creature I said good-bye to.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

“Not being able to go outside upsets me more than I can say, and I’m terrified our hiding place will be discovered and that we’ll be shot. That, of course, is a fairly dismal prospect.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition

“Death is part of the natural order of life,” she would explain. “You shouldn’t be scared of it. You should be respectful of it.”
― James Ponti, Dead City

“James, I can’t believe you’ve turned my only son into an Arsenal fan.”
― Robert Muchamore, The Sleepwalker

“A game is worth playing if you stand a chance at winning.”
― V.E. Schwab, Shades of Magic Vol. 1: The Steel Prince

“Spoiling stories… is an unforgivable sin in this world.”
― Leo Baskerville Pandora Hearts

“Strangers are just friends we haven’t met yet.”
― Peter Swanson

“You may be a regular person. You may be like any other person. But reading books makes you extraordinary.”
― Lilli Gilliam

“I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.”
― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

“So the saying is true? Money doesn’t buy happiness?” “When you’re poor, you have things to reach for. Goals that excite you. Maybe it’s a dream house or a vacation or even a meal at a restaurant on a Friday night. But the more money you have, the harder it is to find things to be excited about. You already have your dream house. You can go anywhere in the world anytime you want to. You could hire a private chef to make you every food you ever crave. People who aren’t rich think all those things are fulfilling, but they aren’t. You can fill your life with nice things, but nice things don’t fill the holes in your soul.”
― Colleen Hoover, Heart Bones

“One of the rules of the Detective Society is that we never say no to tea.”
― Robin Stevens, Mistletoe and Murder

“After all, grown-ups always underestimate children. Children never underestimate each other.”
― Robin Stevens, Mistletoe and Murder

“It really is silly when adults try to protect children, as though we are not on our way to becoming adults ourselves.”
― Robin Stevens

“... there are two ways of being unhappy. Not getting what you want is one. Getting what you want is the other.”
― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“I'm lonely. I'm lonely because I don't tell people what I need or what I want, and then get hurt when they don't figure it out on their own.”
― Christina Lauren, My Favorite Half-Night Stand