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“They say that a person’s personality is the sum of their experiences. But that isn’t true, at least not entirely, because if our past was all that defined us, we’d never be able to put up with ourselves. We need to be allowed to convince ourselves that we’re more than the mistakes we made yesterday. That we are all of our next choices, too, all of our tomorrows.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“A book a day keeps reality away.”
― Anonymous

“In this world, it is very hard to escape happiness.” – Unni Chacko”
― Manu Joseph, The Illicit Happiness of Other People

“There is a strange but potent comfort in the discovery that someone else has experienced the exact same feelings as we have.

And seeing these feelings--the ones we previously thought were unique to us-- perfectly articulated by someone else comes as a bit of a surprise.

It makes me wonder whether all our stories are more or less the same-- that there is a fixed number of emotions to be had in this world, and despite the distinctive notes that separate your story from mine, the underlying feelings that we experience--even the most deeply isolating ones--are actually much more universal than we think.”
― Meichi Ng, Barely Functional Adult: It’ll All Make Sense Eventually