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“I’ll know that you are not a puzzle that can be solved but a mystery that can never be gotten to the bottom of. I’ll do you the honor of suspending judgment and letting you be as you are.”
― David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

“men and their ignorance of women’s lived experiences and how we cope with so much they cannot understand”
― Lily King, Heart the Lover

“You are not what happened to you. You were a child. You should have been protected. I believe you. I am not afraid of you. I am not disgusted by you. I am not leaving.

These are the things I know to be true.

You are remarkable.”
― Totoro

“These are the things I must not forget.”
― Amy Tan, The Bonesetter's Daughter

“You are remarkable.”
― Totoro, Introduction to Statistics

“These are the things I know to be true.”
― Amy Tan, The Bonesetter's Daughter

“I love you.”
― Totoro

“What is the past but what we choose to remember?”
― Amy Tan, The Bonesetter's Daughter

“I choose to remember us.”
― Totoro, Introduction to Statistics

“Plenty of humans were monstrous, and plenty of monsters knew how to play at being human.”
― Victoria Schwab, Vicious

“You are broken. But you've handled everything that's been put in front of you. So you're perfect too, and a badass bitch on top of that. In a sick world, healthy is strange.”
― Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars

“Since childhood, I've been faithful to monsters. I have been saved and absolved by them, because monsters, I believe, are patron saints of our blissful imperfection, and they allow and embody the possibility of failing.”
― Guillermo del Toro

“She knew suddenly that a woman could change her whole life and uproot her existence with one choice.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

“It's scary believing that you, as you are, could ever be enough.”
― Roxane Gay, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

“My heart only ever had one thought, one want. One need. Despite all, in spite of all...All my heart has ever wanted is you.”
― Stephanie Laurens, The Edge of Desire

“And what is connection, really, if not shared judgment?”
― Jennette McCurdy, Half His Age

“As long as you are alive, it is never too late to be found.”
― Lily King, Heart the Lover

“If you were accepted by just one person, then you didn’t need to be someone whose beauty was acknowledged by everyone.”
― Asako Yuzuki, Butter

“Print is predictable and impersonal, conveying information in a mechanical transaction with the reader’s eye.

Handwriting, by contrast, resists the eye, reveals its meaning slowly, and is as intimate as skin.”
― Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being

“Patience is the answer to so many of life’s questions.”
― Alice Feeney, Rock Paper Scissors

“At the time, I thought my life couldn’t get any worse. Here’s some advice: Don’t ever think that.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

“That was the starting and ending point in life: love. The journey was everything in between.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Women

“She was tired of living her life thinking constantly about how she appeared to others, checking her answers against everyone else’s.”
― Asako Yuzuki, Butter: A Novel of Food and Murder

“Keeping secrets from young ears only plants seeds in between them,”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

“I find myself drawn to literature more now than in the past; not the individual works as much as the idea of literature—the heroic effort and nobility of our human desire to make beauty of our minds—which moves me to tears, and I have to brush them away, quickly, before anyone notices.”
― Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being

“Isabelle had always been impetuous, a force of nature, really, a girl who liked to break rules. Countless nuns and teachers had learned that she could be neither controlled nor contained.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

“Time itself is being, he wrote, and all being is time . . . In essence, everything in the entire universe is intimately linked with each other as moments in time, continuous and separate.”
― Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being

“And she smiled. She relished the moment, the gift of her and Thurwar existing in the same time and space, no matter how briefly.”
― Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars

“Word of the year: atelophobia noun. The fear of not doing something right or the fear of not being good enough. An extreme anxiety of failure to achieve perfection.”
― Alice Feeney, Rock Paper Scissors

“He thanked God for showing him his life had not been for nothing. He did not know what it was for, but he knew it was not for nothing.”
― Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars