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“All experience adds up to a life lived as only you could. I feel sure the day will come when you can say: this is my life.”
― Durian Sukegawa, Sweet Bean Paste

“Anything worth doing is worth doing badly.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“Death. Such a small word for such a big thing.”
― blujamas, thcscus (blujamas), passerine

“When our loved ones die, the love stays alive in the present.”
― Angeline Boulley, Firekeeper's Daughter

“We love imperfect people. We can love them and not condone their actions and beliefs.”
― Angeline Boulley, Firekeeper’s Daughter

“Her voice cracks. 'It's hard when someone says they love you, but they need to contain and control the things that make you you'.”
― Angeline Boulley, Firekeeper’s Daughter

“My whole life, I've been seeking validation of my identity from others. Now that it's within my reach, I realize I don't need it.”
― Angeline Boulley, Firekeeper’s Daughter

“People’s lives never stay the same colour forever. There are times when the colour of life changes completely.”
― Durian Sukegawa, Les délices de Tokyo

“If I were not here, this full moon would not be here. Neither would the trees. Or the wind. If my view of the world disappears, then everything that I see disappears too. It’s as simple as that.”
― Durian Sukegawa, Sweet Bean Paste

“I began to understand that we were born in order to see and listen to the world. And that's all this world wants of us. It doesn't matter that I was never a teacher or a member of the workforce, my life had meaning.”
― Durian Sukegawa, Sweet Bean Paste

“I know you may not be able to hear anything now, even if you try, but please don't give up. I fee sure that one day you will find whatever it is you seek, and that the spark that leads to it will come from hearing some kind of voice. People's lives never stay the same colour forever. There are times when the colour of life changes completely.”
― Durian Sukegawa, Sweet Bean Paste

“Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Society often accepts difference in children, but it’s not ‘acceptance’ so much as it is a confidence that those differences will fade.”
― Chloé Hayden, Different, Not Less: A Neurodivergent's Guide to Embracing Your True Self and Finding Your Happily Ever After

“why are we then determined to change the child, rather than the world around them? Why do we validate the wrong just because it’s normalised, and ostracise the right just because it’s not?”
― Chloé Hayden, Different, Not Less: A Neurodivergent's Guide to Embracing Your True Self and Finding Your Happily Ever After

“I found myself on Gatsby's side and alone.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“i was so woried about wat i woud become in the future that i didnt realize i can be anything i want to be right now”
― Jomny Sun, Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too

“we will always be with u. we internalize traits we observe in others as a way to honor and remeber them. we are all living memorials”
― Jomny Sun, Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too

“the harder it is to say goobye to sombody, the luckier u are to have met sombody ur going to miss”
― Jomny Sun, Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too

“when u are worried about who u are suposed to be, u never get to learn who u are”
― Jomny Sun, Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too

“the truth is we all achieve greatness. the only difference is the size of our audiences”
― Jomny Sun, Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too

“a friend is anyone or anything who shares a life with u that you would never be able to experience without them.”
― Jomny Sun, Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too

“if ur always hapy are u ever truly hapy, or is hapiness only somthing we see in u becuase we know sadness”
― Jomny Sun, Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too

“What is a game?" Marx said. "It's tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow. It's the possibility of infinite rebirth, infinite redemption. The idea that if you keep playing, you could win. No loss is permanent, because nothing is permanent, ever.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“Sam's doctor said to him, "The good news is that the pain is in your head."
But I am in my head, Sam thought.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“If you're always aiming for perfection, you won't make anything at all.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“This is what time travel is. It’s looking at a person, and seeing them in the present and the past, concurrently. And that mode of transport only worked with those one had known a significant time.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“There's no game without the NPCs. There's just some bullshit hero, wandering around with no one to talk to and nothing to do.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“You try again. You fail better.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow