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“I want to be wrong. It will feel so good to be wrong. I will wallow in my wrongness; I will swim in it. I will breathe it in and let it overtake my lungs and my body, and I will cry it out, heavy tears so full of relief they will be baptismal”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, After I Do

“There's a flicker of flame in her hollow chest, like hope heating within, like the fires of a phoenix that will be reborn.”
― Adam Silvera, The First to Die at the End

“She can tell by the whisper of the air and the pattern of the stars, by the swell of her heart and the immediacy of her pain. They are the only two humans on the earth tonight”
― Kelly Quindlen, Her Name in the Sky

“She looks up at these trees and marvels at their existence, at how they just are what they were created to be, how they tower proudly on their wooden trunks, how they sway in the breeze and move their leaves like piano keys, and she prays that she can be like them, that she can innately grasp her existence and live it out without questioning.”
― Kelly Quindlen, Her Name in the Sky