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“Life is too short to be lived badly.”
― Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return

“He smiled, and his face was like the sun.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“Marianne had the sense that her real life was happening somewhere very far away, happening without her, and she didn't know if she would ever find out where it was or become part of it.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“Before that she hadn’t realized how fragile happiness was, how if you were careless, you could knock it over and shatter it.”
― Celeste Ng, Everything I Never Told You