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“You save yourself or you remain unsaved.”
― Alice Sebold

“Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.”
― Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman

“Lately, he’d felt like his bones were God’s kindling. That God must be awfully cold to set so many fires.”
― Cynthia Bond, Ruby

“If you don’t worry about something until it’s already a problem,’ said Rosie, ‘that’s not worry. That’s observation.”
― Laurie Frankel, This Is How It Always Is

“You can tell anytime,’ Penn said, ‘but once people know, they can never unknow.”
― Laurie Frankel, This Is How It Always Is

“One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by.”
― Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle

“Bravery can only exist in opposition to fear'.”
― Bri Lee, Eggshell Skull

“You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.”
― Annie Dillard

“Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves.”
― Annie Dillard

“The secret is not to write about what you love best, but about what you, alone, love at all.”
― Annie Dillard

“I do not so much write a book as sit up with it, as a dying friend. I hold its hand and hope it will get better.”
― Annie Dillard, The Writing Life

“She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live. She read books as one would breathe ether, to sink in and die.”
― Annie Dillard, The Living

“Her soul belongs to words and books. Every time she reads, she is home.”
― Anonymous

“Alice, there are plenty of reasons to marry that have nothing to do with love. And you can be head over heels in love and not get married. But no matter what, you should never marry someone unless you believe you’ll die—one way or another—without that person. They should feel more important to you than oxygen. Otherwise you’ll suffocate, one damn anniversary at a time.”
― Karma Brown, Recipe for a Perfect Wife

“Women have so few choices, Nellie. Our gender can be our greatest strength, but it is also our greatest weakness.”
― Karma Brown, Recipe for a Perfect Wife

“Relationships are never easy. Especially the ones we’re born into.”
― Karma Brown, Recipe for a Perfect Wife

“the hardest question we have to ask ourselves in this life is, “Who am I?” Ideally, we answer it for ourselves, but be warned that others will strive to do it for you—so don’t let them.”
― Karma Brown, Recipe for a Perfect Wife

“If you don’t have a dog--at least one--there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with your life.”
― Vincent van Gogh