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“I'm much better at interpreting books and stories than I am at understanding the decisions made by living, breathing people.”
― Val Emmich, Dear Evan Hansen

“Sometimes things that appear very different on the surface are actually exactly the same at their core.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“Life is the thing you bring with you inside your own head.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“How do you make that choice?" I ask almost to myself. "Between what you need and what you want?" I feel like my sister's going through her own version of that. Kris's eyes are on Cooper, too. "You hope they become the same thing, I guess.”
― Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Next