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“Completely knackered. All that politeness.”
― Alan Rickman, Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman

“Of course. But remember, just because someone else suffers more, it doesn’t mean we’re not suffering too. There’s always someone worse off and, by that logic, we’d never be allowed to admit to finding anything difficult at all.”
― Andrea Mara, No One Saw a Thing

“Global apocalypse is not interested in your identity politics or who you pray to or what side of the border you live on.”
― Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

“Never let anyone make you feel ordinary.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“I’m under absolutely no obligation to make sense to you.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“Remember you have choices.”
― Lisa Jewell, None of This Is True

“But I suppose the problem is that people often don’t realize that their lives are changing for the better until after the event, when they stop to look back.”
― Lisa Jewell, None of This Is True

“To say that men can be bullheaded would be insulting to the bull.”
― Julia Quinn, The Duke and I

“Don't feel bad for one moment about doing what brings you joy.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses

“Never underestimate the big importance of small things”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“You’re overthinking it.’ ‘I have anxiety. I have no other type of thinking available.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“Us" versus "them" is not in our genes. It is something we learn.”
― Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, Beasts: What Animals Can Teach Us About the Origins of Good and Evil

“I’m not afraid of being alone in the dark,” Luca whispers. “I’m afraid that I’m not alone.”
― Andrea Mara, Someone in the Attic

“They just got up in the morning, put on their clothes and began.”
― Seamus O'Rourke, Standing in Gaps

“Maybe love and butter are the same thing.”
― Seamus O'Rourke, Standing in Gaps

“There is no such thing as bad people. We’re all just people who sometimes do bad things.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“Just because we didn’t end up on the same wave, doesn’t mean we aren’t still a part of the same ocean.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“It is my wish for you to be my fish”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us

“I thought so little of myself, I was willing to accept whatever people offered me, because I didn’t think I deserved more.”
― Jane Green, When We Were Friends

“It's like he's trying to memorize the smallest details in my skin, to uncover every secret trapped behind my flesh.”
― Brynne Weaver, Butcher & Blackbird

“I surface from the murk of memory and dreams that never let go.”
― Brynne Weaver, Butcher & Blackbird

“What if I try?”
― Brynne Weaver, Butcher & Blackbird

“If you have any sort of personality, someone will eventually want to kill you.”
― Richard Osman, We Solve Murders

“...you must never resent other people for their happiness.”
― Richard Osman, We Solve Murders

“But the best revenge is to thrive.”
― R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

“You have to believe. Otherwise, it will never happen.”
― Neil Gaiman, Stardust

“Silver chains come in all shapes and sizes.”
― Neil Gaiman, Stardust

“The past shimmers like a mirage on the water.”
― Lucy Foley, The Midnight Feast

“... a delicious pressure.”
― Laurie Gilmore, The Pumpkin Spice Café

“Are you going to let someone else’s view of who you should be, and what you should do, hold you back?”
― Charmaine Wilkerson, Black Cake