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“If life has taught me one thing, it's that there are no villains. Only people, doing their best.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Half a King

“And I knew that there was something about me that Mrs. Quintana saw and loved. And even though I felt it was a beautiful thing, I also felt it was a weight. Not that she meant it to be a weight. But love was always something heavy for me. Something I had to carry.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“Before Peter Pan belonged to Wendy he belonged to the girl with the crow feather in her hair”
― Jodi Lynn Anderson, Tiger Lily

“And I hear nothing because it's like the volume button has been turned down on our lives and nobody has anything to say anymore."

"I want to be an adjective again. But I am a noun.”
― Melina Marchetta, Saving Francesca