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“I suppose it depends on what one means by success,’ he said as if to himself. ‘Wealth? The means to buy expensive things? Or just having survived by doing it all yourself, using your own talents? Success is probably simply being happy in your own skin.”
― Susanne O'Leary, The Irish Rose

“People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls.”
― Loreth Anne White, The Patient's Secret

“I think just because you can’t keep something doesn’t mean it wasn’t worth it. Nothing lasts forever. What matters is what we take with us.”
― Katherine Center, The Bodyguard

“The sad priests’ voices muffled by mud and wood. We entrust into thy hands, most merciful Father,
The soul of this our child departed,
And we commit her body to the ground,
Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust.”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

“The magic of Forest Manor at its best: sconce lights glowing, live music playing, the warm hubbub of a happy crowd in the dining room. All the weddings: those love stories that found their happily-ever-after against the backdrop of our beautiful sandstone walls. And, for me, the coffees and heart-to-hearts with Arjun after dinner service has ended and neither of us wants to go home; the slow-growing friendships with guests like Mr Townsend who come to the hotel year after year; the sense of being part of something that brings joy in a harsh, frightening world.”
― Beth O'Leary, The Wake-Up Call

“To overcome the need to be productive, as a lot of productivity is destructive.”
― San Mateo, San Mateo: Proof of The Divine

“There is no easy way to talk about suicide. Sometimes the people you love don’t leave you with goodbyes—they just leave.”
― Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

“By the time I met Vita, I existed already in a form of maternal grieving, a refusal to accept that I had somehow lost my greatest love while still living alongside her.”
― Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow, All the Little Bird-Hearts

“I avoid the telephone whenever I can, using it only for short and necessary calls,”
― Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow, All the Little Bird-Hearts

“He hadn’t hurt her physically. But he hated her. He despised her. He could not stand it when she cried and she could not help crying because he was so mad.”
― Alice Munro, Runaway: As seen on BBC Between The Covers

“Few people, very few, have a treasure, and if you do you must hang on to it. You must not let yourself be waylaid, and have it taken from you.”
― Alice Munro, Runaway

“In case you’re wondering why we didn’t have any more, the answer is that you are the only kid we need. You’re smart and good-looking and you have a sense of humor. How could we be sure we’d get another that good?”
― Alice Munro, Runaway: As seen on BBC Between The Covers

“I lost a World—the other day! Has Anybody found? —Emily Dickinson (1896) One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams. “What makes the desert beautiful,” said the little prince, “is that somewhere it hides a well …” —Antoine de Saint-Exupéry,
The Little Prince (1943) It’s a crazy world out there. Be curious. —Stephen Hawking,
The Universe in a Nutshell (2001)”
― Angie Kim, Happiness Falls

“I realized that what I had taken for sullenness or resentment was in fact a deep and quiet depression. It was as if my father had simply removed himself from the ordinary run of life, sinking, like a foundered boat, through deeper and deeper layers of indifference until he was almost impossible to reach.”
― Joanne Harris, Coastliners

“GrosJean had brought some crocus bulbs in his pocket, and we planted them together. For a time, it was almost like the old days, when I helped my father in the boatyard”
― Joanne Harris, Coastliners

“You need to relax a little. Live for the moment. Smell the seaweed”
― Joanne Harris, Coastliners

“The island finds a way to keep you.”
― Joanne Harris, Coastliners

“I’m so excited I do an involuntary star jump.”
― Dawn O'Porter, Paper Aeroplanes: Where HONEYBEE's Renée and Flo first become friends

“How come all the spiders are men?” “Because then it feels more satisfying to squish them,”
― Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning

“We must discuss, then, the relationship between women and water. When men fall into the sea, they drown. When women meet the water, they transform. It becomes vital to ask: is this a metamorphosis, or a homecoming?”
― Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning

“she was far more concerned about the things she could only see out of the corner of her eye, the voices she heard when no one else was listening.”
― Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning

“And that is when he puts his arms around me and gathers me into them as though I were his own.”
― Claire Keegan, Foster

“It’s bizarre how you can think someone is the coolest person ever, then you get a glimpse of their reality and realise they are actually quite tragic.”
― Dawn O'Porter, Goose: the second novel about Honey Bee's Renée and Flo

“It started a few weeks ago in her garden, a few innocent hours of sunbathing, which has mutated into me offering her every free minute that I have.”
― Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn

“People always call it luck when you’ve acted more sensibly than they have.”
― Anne Tyler

“I don’t know which takes more courage: surviving a lifelong endurance test because you once made a promise or breaking free, disrupting all your world.”
― Anne Tyler, Celestial Navigation

“What hope do you have for a better life, if you keep on saying no to everything new?”
― Anne Tyler, Celestial Navigation

“Now I am alone again, he says. Finally. We can get down to what I have been waiting to do. What is it I have been waiting to do?”
― Anne Tyler, Celestial Navigation

“I buried myself in accomplishments, because with accomplishments, I believed I could control things,”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie

“Accept what you are able to do and what you are not able to do”; “Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it”; “Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others”; “Don’t assume that it’s too late to get involved.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie