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“You don’t ever have to say anything,” he says. “Always remember that as a thing you need never do. Many’s the man lost much just because he missed a perfect opportunity to say nothing.”
― Claire Keegan, Foster

“I wanted to show her the small acts that grounded me each day: make a pot of coffee, do the dishes, sweep the kitchen floor, water the plants. Moments that are for no one, toward nothing, except the maintenance of a day. Moments not worth being written about, maybe, but that make me feel the most connected to being alive.”
― Cyrus Grace Dunham, A Year Without a Name: A Memoir

“All my life I’d heard said this thing about tears—that they are a language, that they do indeed speak.”
― NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory

“Våra spontana reaktioner är sällan våra stoltaste ögonblick. Det sägs att en människas första tanke är den ärligaste, men oftast är det inte sant. Oftast är det bara den dummaste. Vad ska vi annars med eftertanke till?”
― Fredrik Backman, Us Against You