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“Great events turn on small hinges.”
― Stephen King, The Institute

“Our religion might preach love, but it was based on purity. God was holy and pure; therefore we must be holy and pure. But here was a poor mamzer saying God is love; therefore we must be love.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Book of Longings

“You're nobody's rainbow. You're nobody's princess. You're nobody's doorway but your own, and the only one who gets to tell you how your story ends is you.”
― Seanan McGuire, Every Heart a Doorway

“Beginnings and endings are earthly ideas. I go on. And because I go on, you go on with me. Feeling loss is part of why you are on Earth. Through it, you appreciate the brief gift of human existence, and you learn to cherish the world I created for you. But the human form is not permanent. It was never meant to be. That gift belongs to the soul. “I know the tears you shed, Benjamin. When people leave this Earth, their loved ones always weep.” She smiled. “But I promise you, those who leave do not.”
― Mitch Albom, The Stranger in the Lifeboat: A Novel

“Maybe laughter after someone dies is the way we tell ourselves that they are still alive in some way. Or that we are.”
― Mitch Albom, The Stranger in the Lifeboat: A Novel

“For the rest of my life, a different me will pick up this book again and again, read every page and never feel as if I've ever finished it because I myself am never finished”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Burnt Tongues

“When all else fails, give up and go to the library.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“Nobody gets to tell me how my story ends but me.”
― Seanan McGuire, Every Heart a Doorway

“When you have worries about things you don’t know about, like the future, it’s a very good idea to remind yourself of things you do know.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“Everyone you lost was still there with you, and so maybe no one was ever lost at all.”
― Joe Hill, NOS4A2

“A lot of times when I think I’m being self-sufficient, I’m really just learning to live without the things that I need.”
― Kevin Wilson, Nothing to See Here

“Gold don't come off. What's good stays good no matter how much of a beating it takes.”
― Joe Hill, NOS4A2

“... when we say, 'I don't understand,' God replies, 'I don't care.' ”.”
― Stephen King, The Green Mile

“Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

“We don't have a plan, we just do our best to get through the day, because there'll be another one coming along tomorrow.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

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

“It was the end of the world, but you could still hit the drive-thru on your way to oblivion.”
― Joe Hill, Strange Weather

“The kids were happy. They had added another to their numbers. They didn't want to set the world on fire. They just wanted to be less alone in it.”
― Kevin Wilson, Nothing to See Here

“That's the power of literature, you know, it can act like little love letters between two people who can only explain their feelings by pointing at other people's.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“the only coherent thought that comes to mind is how insulting it is that eyelashes like his were wasted on Satan’s Errand Boy”
― Christina Lauren, The Unhoneymooners

“We give those we love nicknames, because love requires a word that belongs to us alone.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“We lie best when we lie to ourselves.”
― Stephen King, It

“We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“All you children playing with fire, looking surprised when the house burns down”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House

“When you're twenty-one, life is a roadmap. It's only when you get to be twenty-five or so that you begin to suspect that you've been looking at the map upside down, and not until you're forty are you entirely sure. By the time you're sixty, take it from me, you're fucking lost.”
― Stephen King, Joyland

“Sarcastic people tend to be marshmallows underneath the armor”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“She doesn't really understand the difference between teachers and professors, except that professors know so much more than teachers. Professors are like wizards: they create the universe.”
― Seanan McGuire

“I felt lonely and content at the same time. I believe that is a rare kind of happiness.”
― Stephen King, Bag of Bones

“Hadn’t somebody said that perfect paranoia and perfect awareness were the same thing?”
― Stephen King, Firestarter

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