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“If you must err, do so on the side of audacity.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Invention of Wings

“Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.”
― Daphne Du Maurier, Rebecca

“That's the secret. If you always make sure you're exactly the person you hoped to be, if you always make sure you know only the very best people, then you won't care if you die tomorrow.”
― Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I'm Home

“I don’t think you have to do something so big to be brave. And it’s the little things that are harder anyway.”
― Morgan Matson, Since You've Been Gone

“That's right,' she told the girls. 'You are bored. And I'm going to let you in on a little secret about life. You think it's boring now? Well, it only gets more boring. The sooner you learn it's on you to make life interesting, the better off you'll be.”
― Maria Semple, Where'd You Go, Bernadette

“Maybe it's good to put things in perspective, but sometimes, I think that the only perspective is to really be there. Like Sam said. Because it's okay to feel things. And be who you are about them.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Sometimes people use thought to not participate in life.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Sometimes its necessary to embrace the magic, to find out what's real in life, and in one's own heart.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, First Frost

“A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“Nobody's lives just fit together. Fitting together is something you work at. It's something you make happen - because you love each other.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Landline

“Coffee, she'd discovered, was tied to all sorts of memories, different for each person. Sunday mornings, friendly get-togethers, a favorite grandfather long since gone, the AA meeting that saved their life. Coffee meant something to people. Most found their lives were miserable without it. Coffee was a lot like love that way. And because Rachel believed in love, she believed in coffee, too.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, The Peach Keeper

“How wild it was, to let it be.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

“There's a difference between loneliness and solitude.”
― Jennifer E. Smith, The Geography of You and Me

“The truth is the truth, the only prize worth having. If you deny it, you’re only showing that you’re unworthy of it.”
― M.R. Carey, The Girl With All the Gifts

“I believe in one day and someday and this perfect moment called Now.”
― Jacqueline Woodson, Brown Girl Dreaming

“Even the silence
has a story to tell you.
Just listen. Listen.”
― Jacqueline Woodson, Brown Girl Dreaming

“We all have the same dream, my grandmother says. To live equal in a country that’s supposed to be the land of the free. She lets out a long breath, deep remembering.”
― Jacqueline Woodson, Brown Girl Dreaming

“Everyone else
has gone away.
And now coming back home
isn't really coming back home at all.”
― Jacqueline Woodson, Brown Girl Dreaming

“They had chosen to make the leap and, having leapt, were delighted to find that the world was even more beautiful than they’d hoped.”
― Emma Straub, The Vacationers

“Sisters are supposed to fight and make up, because they are sisters
and sisters always find their way back to each other. But the thing that scares me is that maybe we won’t.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“And laughter, once again laughter. Heaven on earth, no?”
― Richard C. Morais, The Hundred-Foot Journey

“We are sisters, and there's nothing she or I can ever say or do to change that.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

“I wish for the thing that is best for me.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

“I never for a minute would have believed a dream could be this painful.”
― Susan Gregg Gilmore, Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen: A Novel

“Daddy said you can see the devil in people's eyes, but maybe the devil is nothing more than the sadness they carry around inside of them, bottled up so tight that it comes out as pure ugliness.”
― Susan Gregg Gilmore, Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen: A Novel

“All I'm saying is that you can run away from a town or a house, but I'm not so sure you can run away from your home.”
― Susan Gregg Gilmore, Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen: A Novel

“I felt what I often feel, a deep respect for the courage of ordinary people - the people that get up every morning and do what needs to be done.”
― Mary Pipher, Letters to a Young Therapist

“But anyway, I look around sometimes and I think - this will maybe sound weird - it's like the corporate world's full of ghosts. And actually, let me revise that, my parents are in academia so I've had front row seats for that horror show, I know academia's no different, so maybe a fairer way of putting this would be to say that adulthood's full of ghosts."

"I'm sorry, I'm not sure I quite --"

"I'm talking about these people who've ended up in one life instead of another and they are just so disappointed. Do you know what I mean? They've done what's expected of them. They want to do something different but it's impossible now, there's a mortgage, kids, whatever, they're trapped. Dan's like that."

"You don't think he likes his job, then."

"Correct," she said, "but I don't think he even realises it. You probably encounter people like him all the time. High-functioning sleepwalkers, essentially.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

“Hell is the absence of the people you long for.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven