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“You won’t understand what I mean now, but someday you will: the only trick of friendship, I think, is to find people who are better than you are—not smarter, not cooler, but kinder, and more generous, and more forgiving—and then to appreciate them for what they can teach you, and to try to listen to them when they tell you something about yourself, no matter how bad—or good—it might be, and to trust them, which is the hardest thing of all. But the best, as well.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
“We should always make time for the things we like. If we don't, we might forget how to be happy.”
― The House in the Cerulean Sea
― The House in the Cerulean Sea
“If we do something over and over, it becomes normal. If we see the same thing over and over, it becomes normal.”
― We Should All Be Feminists
― We Should All Be Feminists
“Maybe understanding a language is like understanding the expressions and emotions of other people.”
― Almond
― Almond
“The people who teach us something retain a particularly vivid place in our memories.”
― I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death
― I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death
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