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“Is life just about getting a house, a job, a partner, going on lavish holidays – is there not something else too?”
― Paul A. Gilbert, Mindful Compassion

“I exhale and set aside my book. It’s about a nosy elderly Were lady who solves murder mysteries in the Northeast pack. I absolutely loathe her, but somehow I’m already at number seven in the series.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Bride

“The world was filled with poets who thought a woman’s love had unmade them.”
― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Six

“We have not touched the stars,
nor are we forgiven, which brings us back
to the hero’s shoulders and the gentleness that comes,
not from the absence of violence, but despite
the abundance of it.”
― Richard Siken, Crush