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“Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?”
― Richard Bach

“Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.”
― Richard Bach

“The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.”
― Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

“If there is one thing I'd learned about hospitals, it's that they aren't interested in healing you. They are interested in stabilizing you, and then everyone is supposed to move on. They go to stabilize some more people, and you go off to do whatever you do. Healing, if it happens at all, is done on your own, long after the hospital has submitted your final insurance paperwork.”
― Eric Nuzum, Giving Up the Ghost: A Story About Friendship, 80s Rock, a Lost Scrap of Paper, and What It Means to Be Haunted

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
― Steve Jobs

“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
― Narcotics Anonymous

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

“Get busy living or get busy dying.”
― Stephen King, Different Seasons

“I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

“Up until then I'd thought that white people and colored people getting along was the big aim, but after that I decided everybody being colorless together was a better plan. I thought of that policeman, Eddie Hazelwurst, saying I'd lowered myself to be in this house of colored women, and for the very life of me I couldn't understand how it had turned out this way, how colored women had become the lowest ones on the totem pole. You only had to look at them to see how special they were, like hidden royalty among us. Eddie Hazelwurst. What a shitbucket.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

“On some great and glorious day," wrote H. L. Mencken in 1920, "the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron." In the first eight years of the new century this first prediction is still fodder for debate, but the second is not.

,,,twenty-first-century American society is litigious to an absurd degree. I therefore wish to spare my future self the aggravation and expense of an (albeit groundless) libel suite. Suffice it to say that there is precious little Christlike about these people. ~ from Mary Modern”
― Camille DeAngelis

“It's weird, marriage. It's like this license that gives a person the legal right to control their spouse / their 'other half.”
― Jess C. Scott, Blind Leading Another

“Nobody should have to die to a crappy soundtrack”
― James R. Tuck, Blood and Bullets

“White Americans desire to be free of a past they do not want to remember, while Black Americans remain bound to a past they can never forget.”
― Nikole Hannah-Jones, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story

“Losing a child was like losing a limb. You were reminded of it every time you moved, until the consistent adjustments to life became a permanent part of you.”
― A.R. Torre, The Good Lie

“Don’t make apologies for being yourself.”
― Lisa Unger, Last Girl Ghosted

“People only stay in your life if they want to. So often, they just go away. And there’s really nothing you can do.”
― Lisa Unger, Last Girl Ghosted

“These folks thought that society had already collapsed. They had dropped out, walked away from—” “The world of men,” I finish. “That’s what my father always said. That the end was already underway.” “Some days it’s hard to argue with that,” says Joy. I think of the fires raging, the virus that’s spreading, the category five hurricanes that have been ravaging coastlines, war all over the world, famine, drought. Maybe he was right.”
― Lisa Unger, Last Girl Ghosted

“Even though we can’t always have affection for every person we meet, we can always treat every person with kindness.”
― Lisa Unger, Last Girl Ghosted

“When did the news become worse than any dystopian fiction we could imagine?”
― Lisa Unger, Last Girl Ghosted

“Houses are like people. They have memories, and energy. They wait. They wilt from neglect. They sicken and decay. They haunt, and they are haunted.”
― Lisa Unger, Last Girl Ghosted

“~it's the good and open hearted people, those with the most to give, who are the most vulnerable. Because they think everyone is honest as they are.”
― Lisa Unger, Last Girl Ghosted

“Did that ever happen to you? Do you have dreams that you are not in, in which you are only the observer. It's probably just me.”
― Lisa Unger, Last Girl Ghosted

“If this is one of the last days of my life, am I doing exactly what I want to be doing?”
― Nora Ephron, I Remember Nothing: and Other Reflections

“Never underrate
the heart,
Capable of deeds
The mind cannot conceive.
The heart dictates as well as feels.
How else can you explain
The path I have taken,
That you have taken
The long way through this pass?”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“A lesser male need to shout to be heard."

(Kya thinking that alpha males did not need flashy clothes, cars because he knew he was powerful. A lesson taken from male peacocks.)”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing