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“What's wrong with me? ... I might seem like the ideal student: homework always in early, every extra credit and extra curricular I can get my hands on, the good girl and the high achiever. But I realized something just now: it's not ambition, not entirely. It's fear. Because I don't know who I am when I'm not working, when I'm not focused on or totally consumed by a task. Who am I between the projects and the assignments, when there's nothing to do? I haven't found her yet and it scares me. Maybe that's why, for my senior capstone project this year, I decided to solve a murder.”
― Holly Jackson, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

“While some people might work in their bedrooms, I sleep in my workstation. It's very different.”
― Holly Jackson, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

“All superheros were sad kids. The sadness made them strong and then they rose up and helped people.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, How to Make Friends with the Dark

“Sometimes you're so hungry, so thirsty for something to fill you up, you've craved it for so long, but when you finally have it, it hurts going down. It's not a medicine for what ails you. It might just be the thing that is keeping you sick.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, How to Make Friends with the Dark

“why would I have a snow scraper when we live in Southern California,”
― Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Back

“There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“We know that God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the grandest scale spread before us; and it is in the unclouded night-sky, where His worlds wheel their silent course, that we read clearest His infinitude, His omnipotence, His omnipresence.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“La souffrance physique on la subit, la souffrance morale on la choisit.”
― Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt, Oscar et la dame rose

“Life is what you celebrate. All of it. Even its end.”
― Joanne Harris, Chocolat

“les yeux sont aveugles. Il faut chercher avec le coeur.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Le Petit Prince

“There isn’t a version of me that is better without you by my side.”
― Hannah Grace, Icebreaker

“I want words at my funeral. But I guess that means you need life in your life.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“Three different stories, but one interconnected knot.”
― Holly Jackson, As Good As Dead

“If I’m good enough, I’ll be happy. I’ll be loved. I’ll be safe.”
― Emily Henry, Happy Place

“You are in all of my happiest places.
You are where my mind goes when it needs to be soothed.”
― Emily Henry, Happy Place

“All my life, I’ve let other voices creep in, and they’ve drowned out my own.”
― Emily Henry, Happy Place

“That was me, apparently: scared of cows, and scared of love.”
― Katherine Center, The Bodyguard

“But you don’t have to be perfect to be lovable.”
― Katherine Center, The Bodyguard

“She's not you."
"What?"
"She. Isn't. You.”
― Lynn Painter, Better Than the Movies

“They were inconveniently reasonable, these women.”
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Herland

“I was carpe diem–ing the crap out of my life, throwing myself into every single moment because I knew firsthand how fleeting those moments could be.”
― Lynn Painter, Nothing Like the Movies

“With freedom comes uncertainty, insecurity, and anxiety. Human beings exchanged their freedom for the sense of security that comes from living by set rules and routines—despite knowing that they pay the cost of these rules and regulations with their freedom.”
― Genki Kawamura, If Cats Disappeared from the World

“I guess that's what saying good-bye is always like--like jumping off an edge. The worst part is making the choice to do it. Once you're in the air, there's nothing you can do but let go.”
― Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall

“Trust people's actions, not their words. Don't love anyone who isn't ready to love you back. Let go of the people who don't hold on to you. Don't wait on anyone who's in no rush to get to you.”
― Emily Henry, Funny Story