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“Your daughter, your sister. She is salt to the sea,”
― Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea

“Someone who can't see the opponent standing right in front of him, can't defeat the opponent that lies beyond.”
― Haruichi Furudate, ハイキュー!! 8 [Haikyū!! 8]

“No matter what, I want to continue living with the awareness that I will die. Without that, I am not alive.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen

“Religion is something between you and other people; it’s full of interpretations and theories and opinions. But faith . . . that’s just between you and God.”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

“How much do you trade to defeat loneliness?”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“Today might be the day to grasp the chance to let your talent bloom. Maybe tomorrow, the day after, or next year...Maybe even when you're thirty...But if you think it'll never come, it probably never will.”
― Haruichi Furudate

“Time ensures children never know their parents young.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“She laughed for his sake, something she’d never done. Giving away another piece of herself just to have someone else.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“I think we ought to live happily ever after," and she thought he meant it. Sophie knew that living happily ever after with Howl would be a good deal more hair-raising than any storybook made it sound, though she was determined to try. "It should be hair-raising," added Howl.
"And you'll exploit me," Sophie said.
"And then you'll cut up all my suits to teach me.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

“Once again, everything had changed on them. Perhaps it was all this changing that made her sad.”
― Cynthia Voigt, Homecoming

“You never have the sort of friends you have when you’re fifteen ever again. Even if you keep them for the rest of your life, it’s never the same as it was then.”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

“I laugh maniacally, then take a deep breath and touch my chest- expecting a heart to be thumping quickly, impatiently, but there's nothing there, not even a beat.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

“Just when one can't take anymore, one sees the moonlight. Beauty that seems to infuse itself into the heart: I know about that.”
― Banana Yoshimoto , Kitchen

“I caved and decided it will be joy from now on.”
― Ocean Vuong, Time Is a Mother

“If I can make it before the light changes, I'm sure everything will work out.”
― Inio Asano, Solanin

“In theory you are right... Time without end. In practice we both wear a watch.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body

“In my worst moments, it seemed the state not only of me, but of the whole world, with all of us on the verge of turning around and finding the dead behind us... do your worst. Disrupt my certainty, try to fool me, make me believe. Get me to believe there is nothing dead behind me.”
― Brian Evenson, A Collapse of Horses

“We are the protagonists of the world.”
― Haruichi Furudate

“Don't you ever forget my worthless pride”
― Haruichi Furudate, ハイキュー!! 1 [Haikyū!! 1]

“Why keep fighting, even when I'm hopelessly outmatched? One reason. Because I haven't lost yet!”
― Haruichi Furudate, ハイキュー!! 1 [Haikyū!! 1]

“I don't have the luxury of fighting against both them and myself. It's only natural to feel scared. Anyone would feel guilty. So man up and shoulder the burden. Today for once... I'm going to learn to trust in myself.”
― Haruichi Furudate, ハイキュー!! 41 [Haikyū!! 41]

“When you dedicate yourself to pushing higher, you’re going to have to expect the hard times to outweigh the fun. It gets to the point where you begin to believe that if it isn’t hard, if it isn’t rough, then you aren’t giving everything you can. Yet, without any rhyme or reason, from time to time, something fun will just hit… out of nowhere. It’s that fun that keeps pulling me onward. Volleyball is fun. Every time I forget that, it comes back to remind me.”
― Oikawa Tooru