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“Humanity has many shortcomings, but none is stronger than pride.”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

“in the absence of feedback, people will fill in the blanks with a negative. They will assume you don’t care about them or don’t like them.”
― Pat Summitt, Sum It Up: A Thousand and Ninety-Eight Victories, a Couple of Irrelevant Losses, and a Life in Perspective

“It is difficult to admit that one is wrong. Particularly when one has been wrong for a very long time.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

“If writers wrote as carelessly as some people talk, then adhasdh asdglaseuyt[bn[ pasdlgkhasdfasdf.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

“As an animal lover, I don’t like zoos. I feel the only creatures that should be caged behind bars are politicians, lobbyists, and lawyers. And rapists, but I’ve already listed that three times.”
― Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not for Sale

“Never mess with someone who has more spare time than you do[.]”
― Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“Scientifically speaking, there is tribalism and group bias, but there cannot be any such thing as racism. We are all one.”
― Bill Nye, Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation

“Every fool in error can find a passage of scripture to back him up”
― John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me

“if you gonna go into history, you can’t do it with a hate attitude. You got to remember, times was different.”
― Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

“You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer

“But race is the child of racism, not the father.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

“Tampon commercial, detergent commercial, maxi pad commercial, windex commercial - you'd think all women do is clean and bleed.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“And after all those hours in the locker room, all those nights on the team bus, all the conversations and all the jokes and the blood, sweat, and tears, the boy didn’t dare tell his coach his biggest secret.
That’s betrayal. David knows it’s a huge betrayal. There’s no other way to explain how much a grown man must have failed as a person if such a warrior of a boy could believe that his coach would be less proud of him if he were gay.
David hates himself for not being better than his dad. That’s the job of sons.”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

“The face you give the world tells the world how to treat you.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“A lot of people lacked that gift: knowing when to fuck off.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“People don't always want to be with people. It gets tiring.”
― Emma Donoghue, Room

“Problems always start long before you really, really see them.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“Stories are a different kind of true.”
― Emma Donoghue, Room

“We make attachments to what's familiar. We find the beauty, even in the lack. That's human. We make the best of what we're given.”
― Emily Murdoch, If You Find Me

“I answer her with my silence, understanding the full power of it for the first time. Words are weapons. Weapons are powerful. So are unsaid words. So are unused weapons.”
― Emily Murdoch, If You Find Me

“Funny how we can't hold onto time, even when it's strapped to our wrists”
― Emily Murdoch, If You Find Me

“A lot of the world seems to repeat itself”
― Emma Donoghue, Room

“I looked in my mirror and saw, not myself, but every place I'd never been.”
― Emma Donoghue, Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins

“I'm annoyed by those who love mankind but are discourteous to people.”
― John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me

“Humanity does not differ in any profound way; there are not essentially different species of human beings. If we could only put ourselves in the shoes of others to see how we would react, then we might become aware of the injustice of discrimination and the tragic inhumanity of every kind of prejudice.”
― John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me

“In reality, the Us-and-Them or I-and-Thou dichotomies do not exist. There is only one universal We - one human family united by the capacity to feel compassion and to demand equal justice for all.”
― John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me

“Fear dims even the sunlight.”
― John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me

“We shall remain prisoners of culture unless we become aware of the process and force ourselves to confront it and to deprogram it.”
― John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me