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“Karma comes after everyone eventually. You can't get away with screwing people over your whole life, I don't care who you are. What goes around comes around. That's how it works. Sooner or later the universe will serve you the revenge that you deserve.”
― Jessica Brody, The Karma Club

“When you see a good person, think of becoming like her/him. When you see someone not so good, reflect on your own weak points.”
― Confucius

“Is Fate getting what you deserve, or deserving what you get?”
― Jodi Picoult, Vanishing Acts

“Sooner or later in life, we will all take our own turn being in the position we once had someone else in.”
― Ashly Lorenzana

“But, mark my words; someday she'll get what's coming to her. Karma's a bigger bitch than she is,”
― Kathleen Brooks

“Why wasn’t friendship as good as a relationship? Why wasn’t it even better? It was two people who remained together, day after day, bound not by sex or physical attraction or money or children or property, but only by the shared agreement to keep going, the mutual dedication to a union that could never be codified.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“Friendship was witnessing another’s slow drip of miseries, and long bouts of boredom, and occasional triumphs. It was feeling honored by the privilege of getting to be present for another person’s most dismal moments, and knowing that you could be dismal around him in return.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

“There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn't.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“Thomas Edison's last words were "It's very beautiful over there". I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.”
― Stephen Fry

“He stands not alone. You would die before your stroke fell.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

“We don't get to choose what hurts us”
― Rory Power, Wilder Girls

“The wonderful thing about reality is that it is highly flexible. One minute, all is doom; the next, everything is abloom with possibility.”
― Maureen Johnson, The Hand on the Wall

“Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

“But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”
― Albert Camus

“A lot of you cared, just not enough.”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

“I can't eat and I can't sleep. I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

“You won’t understand what I mean now, but someday you will: the only trick of friendship, I think, is to find people who are better than you are—not smarter, not cooler, but kinder, and more generous, and more forgiving—and then to appreciate them for what they can teach you, and to try to listen to them when they tell you something about yourself, no matter how bad—or good—it might be, and to trust them, which is the hardest thing of all. But the best, as well.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“...things get broken, and sometimes they get repaired, and in most cases, you realize that no matter what gets damaged, life rearranges itself to compensate for your loss, sometimes wonderfully.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“Wasn’t friendship its own miracle, the finding of another person who made the entire lonely world seem somehow less lonely?”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“And so I try to be kind to everything I see, and in everything I see, I see him.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“What he knew, he knew from books, and books lied, they made things prettier.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“Relationships never provide you with everything. They provide you with some things. You take all you want from a person - sexual chemistry, let's say, or good conversation, or financial support, or intellectual compatibility, or niceness, or loyalty - and you get to pick three of them.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“But what was happiness but an extravagance, an impossible state to maintain, partly because it was so difficult to articulate?”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“I wasn't aware that words could hold so much. I didn't know a sentence could be so full.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“Syrio says that every hurt is a lesson, and every lesson makes you better”
― George R. R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire: Four Books in One

“The night is dark and full of terrors.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire