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“It’s a well-known fact that hate shows up on your face once you’re forty.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

“THE AWARD CEREMONY is held at a high school in Hyannis. Though it’s just a gymnasium (the scent of balls of both varieties is still palpable) and the ceremony hasn’t started yet, everyone speaks in hushed tones, like it’s church. Something important and literary is about to happen here.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

“After the most basic physical requirements are satisfied, human happiness is almost independent of wealth. A meaningful job is far more important.”
― Graeme Simsion, The Rosie Effect

“We’re scientists,” I reminded him. “We shouldn’t be defeated by problems. If we think hard enough, a solution will present itself.”
― Graeme Simsion, The Rosie Effect

“It drove her to distraction the way women wanted to bond over self-hatred.”
― Liane Moriarty, Big Little Lies

“Oh, calamity!”
― Liane Moriarty, Big Little Lies

“The reason for her love of maps. It’s half worn away, the dot, and the red color is bleached. Yet it’s there, flung down there on the map halfway between the lower left corner and its center, and next to it is written, “You are here.”
Sometimes it’s easier to go on living, not even knowing who you are, when at least you know precisely where you are while you go on not knowing”
― Fredrik Backman, Britt-Marie Was Here

“You have to understand that when one is just standing there looking, then just for a second one is ready to jump. If one does it, one dares to do it. But if one waits, it’ll never happen.”
― Fredrik Backman, Britt-Marie Was Here

“If a guy like you can stand up and do what you did, then maybe everyone can. Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of. ”
― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger