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“You hear that I’m nauseous and sick to my stomach and the first thing that comes to your mind is cancer?”
― Judy Angelo, Daddy by December

“We aren’t the things we collect, acquire, read. We are, for as long as we are here, only love. The things we loved. The people we loved. And these, I think these really do live on”
― Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“I’m guessing you don’t have to share a bathroom at your house,”

I say with the casual tone of someone who isn’t waving her half-naked

bottom in the air in front of a hunky, semi-stranger and soon-to-be-

boss. I push myself to my feet and edge my way back to the dresser, this

time keeping my back to the wall.

He snorts a laugh. “No. Nor do I have a back door in my bedroom

or a collection of random people walking around my house.”
― Sarah Castille, Against the Ropes