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“Everything is changing. It has to. You can’t stop time. All you can do is point yourself in a direction and hope the wind will let you get there. Another maritime metaphor. I am truly a local’s worst nightmare. But the point stands: change happens.”
― Emily Henry, Happy Place

“I believed the universe was completely random, and that's what eluded us. Because we all want to believe we are fundamental in some way. We are our own myths, our own legends. We give things reason. We are reasonable creatures and so everything must have its place, its purpose — but we are also egoistical creatures, and so we give ourselves reasons that don't exist.”
― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Paradox

“She often wished she were a body with hinges, that she might throw open a door in her chest and fill its cavity.”
― Tahereh Mafi, This Woven Kingdom

“From the loneliness, from the fear that I would never escape it. Because feelings were changeable, and people were unpredictable. You couldn’t hold on to them through the force of will.”
― Emily Henry, Happy Place