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“Are you using your swear box?” Joe asked. “Yeah, but it’s not fucking big enough,”
― Helen Fisher, Joe Nuthin's Guide to Life

“A memory, once it’s over, is never exactly what it was when it was happening. Whatever comes later changes the meaning of it.”
― Hayley Gelfuso, The Book of Lost Hours

“One in ten kept dying. The average never improved, not in any corner of the globe. There were memorials for the famous and semifamous folks who took the gamble and lost. A congressman here and a comedian there. But everyone was so proud of them that they had died trying to better themselves that all the obituaries and eulogies had a weird, wistful tone to them. As if it was the next best thing to being thin. At least they didn’t have to live that fat life anymore.”
― Meg Elison, Big Girl

“But dreams are dreams."
"Oh no, no," he said, and smiled at me. "Dreams are so much more than that. They are visions of the future, they are whispers of our desires, they are hope. We cannot and we must not live without dreams, Clara.”
― Patti Callahan Henry, The Story She Left Behind