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“You save yourself or you remain unsaved.”
― Amy Reed, The Nowhere Girls

“If you aim to be something you are not, you will always fail. Aim to be you. Aim to look and act and think like you. Aim to be the truest version of you. Embrace that you-ness. Endorse it. Love it. Work hard at it. And don't give a second thought when people mock it or ridicule it. Most gossip is envy in disguise.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“The only way to learn is to live.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“Maybe things can always get better between people who want to do a good job loving each other. Maybe that’s all it takes.”
― Emily Henry, People We Meet on Vacation

“We are all stardust and stories.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

“He tells her how he worries that none of it means anything. That none of it is important. That who he is, or who he thinks he is, is just a collection of references to other people’s art and he is so focused on story and meaning and structure that he wants his world to have all of it neatly laid out and it never, ever does and he fears it never will. He tells her things he has never told anyone.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

“It wasn’t the fear that mattered in life. It was the choices made when you were afraid. You were brave because of your fear, not in spite of it.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Four Winds

“Courage is fear you ignore.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Four Winds

“Love is what remains when everything else is gone.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Four Winds

“I say folks who hang on to the past miss their chance for a future.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Four Winds

“And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“Better to have one woman on your side than ten men.”
― Robert Jordan, The Great Hunt

“It was impossible, of course. But when did that ever stop any dreamer from dreaming.”
― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer

“You’re a storyteller. Dream up something wild and improbable," she pleaded. "Something beautiful and full of monsters."

“Beautiful and full of monsters?"

“All the best stories are.”
― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer

“I think you’re a fairy tale. I think you’re magical, and brave, and exquisite. And I hope you'll let me be in your story.”
― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer

“I turned my nightmares into fireflies and caught them in a jar.”
― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer

“To have and to hold, where even death cannot part us,’ Juliette whispered.
‘In this life and the next,’ Roma returned, ‘for however long our souls remain, mine will always find yours.”
― Chloe Gong, Our Violent Ends

“Papi was a man split in two, / playing a game against himself. // But the problem with that / is that in order to win, you also always lose.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, Clap When You Land

“How can you lose an entire person, only to gain a part of them back in someone entirely new?”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, Clap When You Land

“I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“This is the strange lesson of living in a pandemic: life can be tranquil in the face of death.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility

“What if I wish for impossible things?
Then you're doing it right. It always seems impossible when you first start.”
― T.J. Klune, In the Lives of Puppets

“The secret to a beautiful death is living a beautiful life.”
― Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover

“Be cautiously reckless.”
― Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover

“It frustrated me that society. was so determined to quantify grief, as if time could erase the potency of love.”
― Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover

“I don't think it's weird at all. Death is a natural part of life. in fact, it's the only thing in life that we can really count on.”
― Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover

“I was still here, still living. But was I just existing out of habit?”
― Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover

“We step out of our solar system into the universe seeking only peace and friendship – to teach, if we are called upon; to be taught, if we are fortunate.”
― Becky Chambers, To Be Taught, If Fortunate

“We celebrate the tree that stretches to the sky, but it is the ground we should ultimately thank.”
― Becky Chambers, To Be Taught, If Fortunate

“I'm an observer, not a conqueror. I have no interest in changing other worlds to suit me. I choose the lighter touch: changing myself to suit them.”
― Becky Chambers, To Be Taught, If Fortunate