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Small Things Like These

by Claire Keegan

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Jan 26, 2026 07:31PM

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This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel

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“Because you know what’s even better than happy endings?” “What?” “Happy middles.”

Tom Lake

by Ann Patchett

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“Because you know what’s even better than happy endings?” “What?” “Happy middles.”
― Laurie Frankel, This Is How It Always Is

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“Grandpa would sit in his corduroy armchair, I’d settle into a beanbag at his feet, and together we’d escape to different worlds in the pages of our books. And once in a while, he’d pat me on the head, as if to reassure me he was still there.”
― Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover

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“It’s not that I’m unaware of the suffering and the soon-to-be-more suffering in the world, it’s that I know the suffering exists beside wet grass and a bright blue sky recently scrubbed by rain. The beauty and the suffering are equally true.”
― Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

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“Maybe it’s possible to belong in a hundred different ways to a hundred different people and places.”
― Emily Henry, Book Lovers

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“That’s life. You’re always making decisions, taking paths that lead you away from the rest before you can see where they end. Maybe that’s why we as a species love stories so much. All those chances for do-overs, opportunities to live the lives we’ll never have.”
― Emily Henry, Book Lovers

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