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“I don’t want to be work. I don’t want you to feel that I’m work.”
“Somewhere along the way your wires got crossed. Your brain decided that you’re not worth people’s time and effort, and that if you ask for anything, they won’t just say no, they’ll also leave you. That’s not how love works, Elsie.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Love, Theoretically

“You came home to me,” he said. “You always have.”
“To the girls,” she said.
“To us,” he corrected, gently and wrong.”
― Rita Davis, A Sparrows Calling

“I look at my girls, my brilliant young women. I want them to think I was better than I was, and I want to tell them the truth in case the truth will be useful. Those two desires to not neatly coexist, but this is where we are in the story.”
― Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

“We don’t have to do everything in order to be everything, because we are already infinite. While
we are alive we always contain a future of multifarious possibility.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library