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“And I really used to believe we'd be the last generation....I was thinking about the whole planet. And now it's like no...You're the one who's gonna miss out. Not even the end of the world... but just the normal stuff”
― Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers

“There were older people you couldn’t imagine young, and there were those whose faces still held on to what they’d looked like at twenty-five.”
― Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers

“Every pair of lovers lived in their own country, with their own laws.”
― Victor Lodato, Honey

“A simplification, as Honey understood it, in regard to a woman’s rage. That a tragic history could only lead to further tragedy—it was absurd, pigheaded even. Violence spawned violence spawned violence, while on the other side of the concrete wall a rose was a rose was a rose. Why must these two equations be kept apart? Why not violence to violence to roses?”
― Victor Lodato, Honey

“They will never again build like this, he thought. Dignity is an anachronism.”
― Ellen Glasgow, In This Our Life

“anger fades, the sadness comes right back again the same as ever.”
― Anne Tyler, Three Days in June

“Someday I’d like to be given credit for all the times I have not said something that I could have said.”
― Anne Tyler, Three Days in June

“One must have the courage to face reality. Without that courage, life is meaningless. The people who do us most harm are the people who shield us from reality.”
― Agatha Christie, Five Little Pigs

“it is almost as stupid to let your clothes betray that you know you are ugly as to have them proclaim that you think you are beautiful.”
― Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth

“And though excellence may be seldom or never handed down in the blood, meanness, as his mother had warned him, is a fatal inheritance. In”
― Ellen Glasgow, In This Our Life

“She had no tolerance for scenes which were not of her own making.”
― Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth

“She had everything she wanted, but she still felt, at times, that there were other things she might want if she knew about them.”
― Edith Wharton, The Custom of the Country

“Human nature. I don’t like human nature, but I do like human beings.”
― Ellen Glasgow, In This Our Life

“Just words, words. I sometimes wish we had never learned how to talk.”
― Ellen Glasgow, In This Our Life

“Misery has made more revolutions than either philanthropy or economics.”
― Ellen Glasgow, In This Our Life

“Her life, she knew, was becoming simplified into an unbreakable chain of habits, a series of orderly actions at regular hours. Vaguely, she thought of herself as a happy woman; yet she was aware that this monotony of contentment had no relation to what she had called happiness in her youth. It was better perhaps; it was certainly as good; but it measured all the difference between youth and maturity.”
― Ellen Glasgow, Barren Ground

“But if you never did anything you couldn't undo you'd end up doing nothing at all.”
― Anne Tyler, Ladder of Years

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“The opposite of invisible is not simply visible. The opposite of invisible is prominent.”
― James Klise, The Art of Secrets

“I’m telling you, if you’ve earned people’s trust and work as a team, there’s nothing you can’t accomplish.”
― James Klise, The Art of Secrets

“This is an example of the purity of children, yes? They live each moment, caring only about the present. Perhaps our hearts become corrupt when we focus too much on the future, on plans and desired outcomes, rather than being grateful for what we have now.”
― James Klise, The Art of Secrets

“Opportunities—how we clung to that word! It is a dreamer’s word.”
― James Klise, The Art of Secrets

“If we could visit Highsmith today, I would lead you down the silent corridors until we came to a striking seal on the floor, a blood-red H carved in stone. This hallowed seal represents the sacred Honor of every student who spends four years at Highsmith.

The stone seal is indelible, consecrated by the generations of alumnae who have passed by, understanding and believing. No outsider, no matter how cunning, can ever steal that belief away.”
― James Klise

“The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.”
― Ellen Glasgow

“All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.”
― Ellen Glasgow

“There is no support so strong as the strength that enables one to stand alone.”
― Ellen Glasgow

“Storytellers.”
― Brandon Hobson, The Storyteller

“You know how you can remember exactly when and where you read certain books? A great novel, a truly great one, not only captures a particular fictional experience, it alters and intensifies the way you experience your own life while you’re reading it. And it preserves it, like a time capsule.”
― Lily King, Heart the Lover

“As soon as his voice is gone I have that feeling I often have when I’m away from my family, like they are moving farther and farther away from me, beginning to flicker faintly as distant stars and I will never ever reach them again. It feels like a premonition of the fact that someday, one by one, we will be separated from each other forever.”
― Lily King, Heart the Lover