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“You know, you could live a thousand lifetimes and not deserve him.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

“I loved the math of it, three times my age, how easy it was to imagine three of me fitting inside him: one of me curled around his brain, another around his heart, the third turned to liquid and sliding through his veins.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

“It was oddly consoling to know that I wasn’t the only one living out a tragic love story. Heartbreak was everywhere.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Midnight Sun

“Irrevocable commitment to any religion is not only intellectual suicide; it is positive unfaith because it closes the mind to any new vision of the world. Faith is, above all, openness - an act of trust in the unknown.”
― Alan Wilson Watts, The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

“I would unravel the constellations and lay them at your feet,” he promised softly. “I would tear the stars from the sky and build you a throne of stardust and worship you upon it until the end of time. All you have to do is say yes.”
― Jordan Lynde, Until the World Falls Down

“It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“Go to your church and listen to your stories about Jesus walking on water, but if I saw a guy doing that I'd scream and scream and scream.”
― Stephen King, It

“I say, staring at her, quite clearly but muffled by “Pump Up the Volume” and the crowd, “You are a fucking ugly bitch I want to stab to death and play around with your blood,” but I’m smiling.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

“Maybe it had something to do with being born on April Fool’s Day (minutes old and a joke already!).”
― Joseph A. Bailey, Memoirs of a Muppets Writer:

“As they stepped into their room, Lara withdrew her hand from his and turned to him. “What’s running through that head of yours?” “Nothing,” he replied. “My central processing unit and data storage are located in my torso.”
― Tiffany Roberts, Dustwalker

“The rough bastard somehow smoothed the edges of life, probably because he was like sandpaper, a scratchy, persistent wrong-way-rub that left everything more even.”
― J.R. Ward, Lover Revealed

“Sometimes I wore smiles but didn’t feel them. Sometimes I felt them and didn’t wear them.”
― Penelope Douglas, Rival

“I let his curls fall around my wrist. I wished I were a real goddess so I could give him whales upon a golden plate, and he would never let me go.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“Elfangor laughed in my mind. "Victory without sacrifice? You know better than that.”
― K.A. Applegate, The Familiar

“I think the plants are primary organisms, and we are the secondary ones. We are fully dependent on them. Without them, we would not be able to survive,” Baluška says. “The opposite situation would not be so drastic for them.”
― Zoë Schlanger, The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

“Moonlight knew no colors and traced the contours of the terrain only very softly. It covered the land a dirty gray, strangling life all night long. This world molded in lead, where nothing moved but the wind that fell sometimes like a shadow over the gray forests, and where nothing lived but the scent of the naked earth, was the only world he accepted, for it was much like the world of his soul.”
― Patrick Süskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

“Who can find a proper grave for such damaged mosaics of the mind, where they may rest in pieces? Life goes on, but in two temporal directions at once, the future unable to escape the grip of a memory laden with grief.”31”
― Bessel van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

“Plants are nature’s alchemists, expert at transforming water, soil and sunlight into an array of precious substances, many of them beyond the ability of human beings to conceive, much less manufacture.”
― Michael Pollan, The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World

“In my palm I can feel the echo of her pulse, standing in for the absense of mine.”
― Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies

“Many of the stars in the universe are found orbiting each other in pairs.”
― Jo Dunkley, A Pelican Introduction: Our Universe: An Astronomer's Guide

“Leia would never get in a situation like this . . . Actually she probably would, but not until the sequels. This was sequel behavior.”
― Carrie Fisher, The Princess Diarist

“As I told you, Anishinaabe is a verb-based language. In the Anishinaabe way of seeing and naming the world, we are humans being. But this applies elsewhere too. In Anishinaabe, my shirt is not blue; it is being blue. The rock is not hard; it is being hard. The things that we observe are not the inherent qualities of whatever we are looking at; the shirt or the rock is simply what it is being in this moment. This is a very quantum-mechanics way of thinking. Remember: light, depending on how you look at it, is both particle and wave. This applies to people as well.”
― Patty Krawec, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

“The space between you and the star is time.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Atmosphere

“To learn to cook is to put yourself on intimate terms with the laws of physics and chemistry, as well as the facts of biology and microbiology.”
― Michael Pollan, Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation

“May all sentient beings, children of buddha nature, realise the ultimate nature of mind: insight and compassion, in blissful union.”
― Padmasambhava, The Tibetan Book of the Dead

“Like fire itself, which destroys what photosynthesis has created, all cooking begins with small or large acts of destruction: killing, cutting, chopping, mashing. In that sense, a sacrifice is at its very heart.”
― Michael Pollan, Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation

“My definition of man is a cooking animal. The beasts have memory, judgement, and the faculties and passions of our minds in a certain degree; but no beast is a cook.”
― James Boswell, The Journals, 1762-95

“An interesting thing about touch is that the brain doesn’t just tell you how something feels, but how it ought to feel. That’s why the caress of a lover feels wonderful, but the same touch by a stranger would feel creepy or horrible. It’s also why it is so hard to tickle yourself.”
― Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants

“the brain does a truly extraordinary thing: it continuously forecasts what the world will be like a fifth of a second from now, and that is what it gives us as the present. That means that we never see the world as it is at this very instant, but rather as it will be a fraction of a moment in the future. We spend our whole lives, in other words, living in a world that doesn’t quite exist yet.”
― Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants

“I am sad also. But we not be sad for long. You are scientist. I am engineer. Together we solve.”
― Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary