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“When you’re different, sometimes you don’t see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the one person who doesn’t.”
― Jodi Picoult, Change of Heart

“The hardest thing in the world is believing someone can change. It's always easier to go along with the way things are than to admit that you might have been wrong in the first place.”
― Jodi Picoult, Change of Heart

“Don't pay back in kind, pay back in kindness. If someone does wrong by you, do right by them.”
― Jodi Picoult, Change of Heart

“Sometimes we see what we want to, instead of what’s in front of us. And sometimes, we don’t see clearly at all.”
― Jodi Picoult, Change of Heart

“Never tell a lie when you can tell the truth.”
― Stephen King, Mr. Mercedes

“Most people are sheep and sheep don't eat meat”
― Stephen King, Mr. Mercedes

“Eighty percent of success is just showing up.”
― Stephen King, Mr. Mercedes

“That’s all history is, after all: scar tissue.”
― Stephen King, Mr. Mercedes

“Don't complicate what's simple.”
― Stephen King, Mr. Mercedes

“Who is going to be the fish in this relationship, and who is going to be the fisherman?”
― Stephen King, Mr. Mercedes

“Shit don't mean shit”
― Stephen King, Finders Keepers

“Don’t let your good nature cloud your critical eye. The critical eye should always be cold and clear.”
― Stephen King, Finders Keepers

“the most basic rule of human discourse: when someone says they’re going to be honest with you, they are in most cases preparing to lie faster”
― Stephen King, Finders Keepers

“I have never understood how people can blithely disregard the damage they do by following their hearts.”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“it’s possible to miss what you’ve never had, to mourn for it.”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“There’s an old joke about Alzheimer’s: the good news is that you meet new people every day.”
― Stephen King, The Bazaar of Bad Dreams

“My heart is an empty refrigerator.”
― J.T. Lawrence, The Memory of Water

“You look like shit.” “Thanks. I look way better than I feel.”
― J.T. Lawrence, The Memory of Water

“Time itself is a gift-curse. Time says: ‘Look here! Here is a precious moment to do something with!’ Then as soon as you try to grasp the moment, it’s gone. And you haven’t done anything. And while you’re thinking about that, there is another moment, and then it too is gone. Cruel, like an eternal game of pass-the-parcel.”
― J.T. Lawrence, The Memory of Water

“You’re a taker. And you’ve been taking for a long time. And I think that you can only take so much from the universe before it closes shop.”
― J.T. Lawrence, The Memory of Water

“What would Warhol be without his paranoia, Hunter S. Thompson without his Quaaludes, Johnny Cash without his philandering? We Somebodies are not expected to walk the line.”
― J.T. Lawrence, The Memory of Water

“Maybe that’s why God made childbirth so painful, so that when your life is wrecked by children you know it could be worse.”
― J.T. Lawrence, The Memory of Water

“Weird love's better than no love at all.”
― Stephen King, The Green Mile