“Sometimes things that appear very different on the surface are actually exactly the same at their core.”
― The Inheritance Games
― The Inheritance Games
“The trick to being abandoned was to never let yourself long for anyone who left.”
― The Hawthorne Legacy
― The Hawthorne Legacy
“But if these truths exist outside us and we do not determine them—nothing is dependent on our whims or happenstance. The truths are fixed, immutable, and eternal. We are the ones who will come and go, not truth.”
― The London House
― The London House
“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.”
― Little Fires Everywhere
― Little Fires Everywhere
“Life simply carries misunderstandings along with consequences.”
― The London House
― The London House
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