Kat

“In any case, there was only one correct answer: the one she had in mind right now. Isn't that what life is about? Forging forward with the answer you have - stumbling along the way and picking yourself up - only to one day realize the answer you've held on to for a long time is not the right one. When that happens, it's time to look for the next answer. That's how ordinary folks, like herself, live. Over our life span, the right answer will keep changing.”
― Hwang Bo-Reum, Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop

“He hemmed and hawed for a minute, then said, "I'm sure you've got plans already, but I wanted you to know, I cleaned out the spare room at the museum last year."
"What?"
"The spare room in the back," he said patiently. "Next to my workshop. I knwo your mom's probably real excited to have you back home" - this was a profound lie, and we both knew it - "but you know, with the gout, I don't get around as easy as I used to right now, and if you wanted to stay here for a bit, I thought I'd offer.”
― T. Kingfisher, The Hollow Places

“No matter where you go, or how many books you read, you still know nothing, you haven't seen anything. And that's life. We live our lives trying to find our way. It's like that Santouka Taneda poem, the one that goes, 'On and on, in and in, and still the blue-green mountains'.”
― Satoshi Yagisawa, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop

“His life is narrower than the one he once hoped for, but he’s made his peace with that. He understands that narrowing is the natural order of things.”
― Stephen King, If It Bleeds