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“It was fun. People get hung up on happiness and joy, but fun will take you at least as far and it’s generally cheaper to obtain.”
― T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead

“I felt a surge of anger and for a moment I thought I would not tell him what I knew. But then I thought that it was unkind to punish him for something he cannot help. It is not his fault that he does not see things the way I do.”
― Susanna Clarke, Piranesi

“time? An impossible contradiction that she would never settle. It was her undoing, her fatal flaw, the hill she would die and decay on.”
― Holly Jackson, As Good As Dead

“When no one understands, that's usually a good sign that you're wrong.”
― Victoria Schwab, Vicious

“It’s what happens when things die. They go away, but you don’t realize all the parts of you that they were holding up until after.”
― Ram V., The Many Deaths of Laila Starr

“I don’t regret anything I’ve ever done in life, any choice that I’ve made. But I’m consumed with regret for the things I didn’t do, the choices I didn’t make, the things I didn’t say. We spend so much time being afraid of failure, afraid of rejection. But regret is the thing we should fear most. Failure is an answer. Rejection is an answer. Regret is an eternal question you will never have the answer to. “What if…” “If only…” “I wonder what would have…” You will never, never know, and it will haunt you for the rest of your days.”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

“I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar