P 166 Quotes

“Comfort zones are overrated. They make you lazy.”
― Melina Marchetta, Saving Francesca

“When it comes to death, we know that laughter and tears are pretty much the same thing.”
― Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

“Where I am from they tell a story about it,’ the woman said, her attention on the work in front of her, the steady movement of her hands through the flour. ‘They say that every hundred years – some versions say every five hundred, or every thousand – the sun disappears from the daytime sky at the same time the moon vanishes from the night. They say their absence is coordinated so that they may meet in a secret location, unseen by the stars, to discuss the state of the world and compare what each has seen over the past hundred or five hundred or thousand years. They meet and talk and part again, returning to their respective places in the sky until their next meeting.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

“I wasted so much time trying to impress people who hated me that I never gave a second glance to someone who actually liked me.”
― Catherine Lo, How It Ends