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“The thing about first love, Cari, is that it breaks you. It changes everything about who you are for the next person.”
― Katie Khan, Hold Back the Stars

“Sadness is an emotion you can trust. It is stronger than all of the other emotions. It makes happiness look fickle and untrustworthy. It pervades, lasts longer, and replaces the good feelings with such an eloquent ease you don’t even feel the shift until you are suddenly wrapped in its chains. How hard we strive for happiness, and once we finally have the elusive feeling in our grasp, we hold it briefly, like water as it trickles through our fingers.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Marrow

“Long. Not interesting. Coffee?” “No thanks. I’m trying to cut back.” “I thought coffee was a prerequisite for being a cop.” “That’s donuts. What do lawyers eat?” “Each other.”
― Robert Dugoni, My Sister's Grave

“If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: in love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale