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“There was a little gap, a thrilling one, between the narrator and the author, between what was true and what couldn't be, a crucial space for a young reader, surrounded everywhere by the usual restrictions, to sit free and think what I liked.”
― Daniel Handler, And Then? And Then? What Else?

“Whoever said that time heals all wounds probably died of sepsis. It does not. But in the case of a broken heart, it does soften the edges of the pain a little bit.”
― Geraldine DeRuiter, If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury

“Like any good, emotionally stunted writer, I've found linguistic loopholes to express my emotions while still preserving the labyrinthine collection of walls around my heart.”
― Geraldine DeRuiter, If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury

“I don't believe books are the cure to everything, necessarily, but it's like--when you're feeling unwell, and you receive a diagnosis, and you're so relieved because now you realize that it wasn't all in your head, that there's a name for what you're experiencing. On a bad day, books offer a language for your pain, and on a good day, books remind you just how precious your life is.”
― Ann Liang, Never Thought I'd End Up Here