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“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

“Remember, every treasure comes with a price.”
― Kevin Kwan, Crazy Rich Asians

“Perfection comes at a sacrifice,”
― Kevin Kwan, Crazy Rich Asians

“Don't do what I do but what you think is right. But whatever you do, you can't keep yourself from getting hurt. The heart doesn't seem to work that way.”
― Min Jin Lee, Free Food for Millionaires

“COMPETENCE CAN BE A CURSE.”
― Min Jin Lee, Free Food For Millionaires

“choose the important over the urgent.”
― Min Jin Lee, Free Food for Millionaires

“Living everyday in the presence of those who refuse to acknowledge your humanity takes great courage.”
― Min Jin Lee, Pachinko

“You want to see a very bad man? Make an ordinary man successful beyond his imagination. Let’s see how good he is when he can do whatever he wants.”
― Min Jin Lee, Pachinko

“...a God that did everything we thought was right and good wouldn't be the creator of the universe. He would be our puppet.”
― Min Jin Lee, Pachinko

“No one is clean. Living makes you dirty.”
― Min Jin Lee, Pachinko

“We cannot help but be interested in the stories of people that history pushes aside so thoughtlessly.”
― Min Jin Lee, Pachinko

“a man must learn to forgive—to know what is important, that to live without forgiveness was a kind of death with breathing and movement.”
― Min Jin Lee, Pachinko

“There's nothing fucking worse than knowing that you're just like everybody else.”
― Min Jin Lee, Pachinko

“A snake that sheds its skin is still a snake.”
― Min Jin Lee, Pachinko

“It's not that you don't understand, it's that you don't like it.”
― Min Jin Lee, Free Food for Millionaires

“the pain didn’t go away, but its sharp edge had dulled and softened like sea glass.”
― Min Jin Lee, Pachinko

“no matter what, always expect suffering, and just keep working hard.”
― Min Jin Lee, Pachinko

“The Lord forgives, but the world does not forgive.”
― Min Jin Lee, Pachinko

“because he knew well enough to draw a thick line between what was public and what was private.”
― Min Jin Lee, Pachinko

“The people you loved, they were always there with you, she had learned.”
― Min Jin Lee, Pachinko

“Love for God, he'd thought, should come naturally and not out of fear of punishment.”
― Min Jin Lee, Pachinko

“Man, life’s going to keep pushing you around, but you have to keep playing.”
― Min Jin Lee, Pachinko

“It was culture as class performance, literature fetishised for its ability to take educated people on false emotional journeys, so that they might afterwards feel superior to the uneducated people whose emotional journeys they liked to read about.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“Life offers up these moments of joy despite everything,”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“Life is the thing you bring with you inside your own head.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“People are a lot more knowable than they think they are.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“You underestimate your own power so you don't have to blame yourself for treating other people badly.”
― Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends

“Everyone’s always going through something, aren’t they? That’s life, basically. It’s just more and more things to go through.”
― Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends

“You learn nothing very profound about yourself simply by being bullied; but by bullying someone else you learn something you can never forget.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“It's time you'll never get back, Marianne adds. I mean, the time is real. The money is also real. Well, but the time is more real. Time consists of physics, money is just a social construct.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People