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“The little things? The little moments? They aren't little.”
― Jon Kabat-Zinn

“In this world, there are things you can only do alone, and things you can only do with somebody else. It's important to combine the two in just the right amount.”
― Haruki Murakami, After Dark

“Because the only thing that can ever truly destroy a dream is to have it come true.”
― Mark Manson, Everything Is F*cked: A Book About Hope

“It all goes away. Eventually, everything goes away.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“Live to the point of tears.”
― Albert Camus

“The garden is one of the two great metaphors for humanity.
The garden is about life and beauty and the impermanence of all living things.
The garden is about feeding your children, providing food for the tribe.
It’s part of an urgent territorial drive that we can probably trace back to animals storing food.
It’s a competitive display mechanism, like having a prize bull, this greed for the best tomatoes and English tea roses.
It’s about winning; about providing society with superior things; and about proving that you have taste, and good values, and you work hard.
And what a wonderful relief, every so often, to know who the enemy is.
Because in the garden, the enemy is everything: the aphids, the weather, time.
And so you pour yourself into it, care so much, and see up close so much birth, and growth, and beauty, and danger, and triumph.
And then everything dies anyway, right?
But you just keep doing it.”
― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

“If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Until death it is all life”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote

“We look before and after,
And pine for what is not:
Our sincerest laughter
With some pain is fraught;
Our sweetest songs are those that tell
Of saddest thought.

Yet if we could scorn
Hate, and pride, and fear;
If we were things born
Not to shed a tear,
I know not how thy joy we ever
Should come near.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Skylark and Adonais - With Other Poems

“I’ll be your villain, baby.”
― Rina Kent, God of Malice

“People usually relate better to hardships and they certainly react well to smokescreens, half-truths, and well-crafted lies.”
― Rina Kent, God of Malice

“What a little shithead. I did die, and he’s just trying to convince me Heaven is real before he pulls back the veil and reveals a hellfire that will burn me alive.”
― H.D. Carlton, Does It Hurt?

“Thank God it’s not flat. It’s not big by any means, but plenty plump and round to attract the male gaze.”
― H.D. Carlton, Does It Hurt?

“Next time, we fail better.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow