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#1

“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

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#2

“You can love someone and still choose to say goodbye to them,” she says now. “You can miss a person every day, and still be glad that they are no longer in your life.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

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#3

“We are all of us more complicated than the roles we are assigned in the stories other people tell”
― Tara Westover, Educated

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#4

“I really, really wanted to lose awareness of the here and now. The best way for me to do that was bury myself in a book.”
― Charlaine Harris, Grave Sight

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#5

“Think of your head as an unsafe neighborhood; don't go there alone.”
― Augusten Burroughs, Dry

tags: introspection, therapy

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#6

“One's desire to be alone, biologists have found, is partially genetic and to some degree measurable. If you have low levels of the pituitary peptide oxytocin--sometimes called the master chemical of sociability-- and high quantities of the hormone vasopressin, which may suppress your need for affection, you tend to require fewer interpersonal relationships.”
― Michael Finkel, The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit

tags: alone

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#7

“I seen randy dogs at a bitch fest better behaved.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

tags: funny, nasty

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#8

“Kya didn’t stop or they would bolt, a lesson she’d learned from watching wild turkeys: if you act like a predator, they act like prey. Just ignore them, keep going slowly.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

tags: animals, environment, nature, predators, prey

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#9

“His laugh is made of porch swings and lemonade.”
― Augusten Burroughs, Dry

tags: alcoholism, memoir

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#10

“The sky was a thrilling chlorine-blue, stretched taut and featureless like silk.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

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#11

“Sometimes you need to scorch everything to the ground, and start over. After the burning the soil is richer, and new things can grow. People are like that, too. They start over. They find a way.”
― Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere

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#12

“Trifles make the sum of life. ”
― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

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#13

“Abuse can take many forms. It always involves a boundary violation, although every boundary violation is not necessarily abuse.”
― Adelyn Birch, Boundaries After a Pathological Relationship

tags: abuse, boundaries, psychology, relationships

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#14

“Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

tags: education

2390 likes

#15

“Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.”
― Paul Theroux

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#16

“Not all the features of atypical human operating systems are bugs.”
― Steve Silberman, NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity

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#17

“They say it's good to let your grudges go, but I don't know, I'm quite fond of my grudge. I tend it like a little pet.”
― Liane Moriarty, Big Little Lies

tags: grudges

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#18

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
― James Baldwin

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#19

“Do your time before it does you.”
― Trent Dalton, Boy Swallows Universe

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#20

“Love is expressed in all sorts of ways, words being the least important among them.”
― Dustin McKissen, The Poor and the Haunted

tags: action, love

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#21

“You think that it’s not magic that keeps you alive? Just ‘cause you understand the mechanics of how something works, doesn’t make it any less of a miracle. Which is just another word for magic. We’re all kept alive by magic, Sookie. My magic’s just a little different from yours, that’s all.”
― Charlaine Harris

tags: inspirational-quotes, life-and-death, magic, wisdom-in-fiction

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#22

“I've also now been around enough people who have a low opinion of anyone who's creative in a non-professional realm to know that that's ugly and ignorant. People don't have to do things by half measure because they aren't getting paid for it. In fact, that's all the more reason to throw every ounce of passion you have behind it.”
― Anna Kendrick, Scrappy Little Nobody

tags: arts, creativity, professional

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#23

“Finally, she bent over and, heaving, fell to her knees. Cussing worn-out words. As long as she ranted, sobs couldn’t surface. But nothing could stop the burning shame and sharp sadness. A simple hope of being with someone, of actually being wanted, of being touched, had drawn her in. But these hurried groping hands were only a taking, not a sharing or giving.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

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#24

“Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
― Fran Lebowitz, The Fran Lebowitz Reader

tags: advice-for-daily-living, books, reader, reading, speaking, thinking, wisdom

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#25

“Every day I think, ‘Gosh, you look a bit tired today,’ and it’s just recently occurred to me that it’s not that I’m tired, it’s that this is the way I look now.”
― Liane Moriarty, Big Little Lies

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#27

“I often ask myself, Will anyone I know be happier if I save this?”
― Margareta Magnusson, The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning

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#28

“When you're struggling hard to manage your own emotions, it becomes unbearable to have to witness other people's, to have to try and manage theirs too.”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

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#28

“There was no hope, things couldn’t be put right. I couldn’t be put right. The past could neither be escaped nor undone. After all these weeks of delusion, I recognized, breathless, the pure, brutal truth of it.”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

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#29

“She feels the pulse of life, he thought, because there are no layers between her and her planet.”
― Delia Owens

tags: crawdads, feelings, life, pulse, raw, real

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#30

“She knew the years of isolation had altered her behavior until she was different from others, but it wasn't her fault she'd been alone. Most of what she knew, she'd learned from the wild. Nature had nurtured, tutored, and protected her when no one else would.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

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