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“People said Ove saw the world in black and white. But she was color. All the color he had.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

“He was a man of black and white. And she was color. All the color he had.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

“They never had much, but they always had enough.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

“My yardstick is how somebody treats me.”
― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories

“Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.”
― Raymond Carver

“A life lived in a simulation is still a life.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility

“If there’s pleasure in action, there’s peace in stillness.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility

“No star burns forever.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility

“No one wants a person incapable of forgiveness for a friend.”
― Suzanne Allain, Mr. Malcolm's List

“But what really happened? The answer is simple: the lovers survive and flourish.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

“In May, when coyotes howl beneath an unnervingly large moon, taller plants, such as spiderworts and black-eyed Susans, begin to creep over the tinier blooms, stealing their light and water. The necks of the smaller flowers break and their petals flutter away, and before long they are buried underground. This is why the Osage Indians refer to May as the time of the flower-killing moon.”
― David Grann, Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

“Knowing was a temptation. What you don't know won't tempt you.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“We thought we had such problems. How were we to know we were happy?”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“Better never means better for everyone... It always means worse, for some.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“Books were safer than other people anyway.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“You don't pass or fail at being a person, dear.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“. . . I lay on the bed and lost myself in the stories.
I liked that. Books were safer than other people anyway.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that made me happy.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“Adults follow paths. Children explore.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“I loved the sound of words, even if I was not entirely certain what all of them meant”
― Neil Gaiman , The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

“It made her think that it was curious how much nicer a person looked when he smiled. She had not thought of it before.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, Secret Garden

“Two worst things as can happen to a child is never to have his own way - or always to have it.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

“Of course there must be lots of Magic in the world, but people don't know what it is like or how to make it.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

“How does tha' like thysel'?”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

“and I’ll take an experienced C over an ignorant A any day.”
― Matthew McConaughey, Greenlights