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“Luck was a mechanism to be devised, and luck and destiny were merely two sides of the same coin.”
― Amanda Foody, King of Fools

“I may have come close, but I never had what you had. Something always held me back or stood in the way. How you live your life is your business. But remember, our hearts and our bodies are given to us only once. Most of us can't help but live as though we've got two lives to live, one is the mockup, the other the finished version, and then there are all those versions in between. But there's only one, and before you know it, your heart is worn out, and, as for your body, there comes a point when no one looks at it, much less wants to come near it. Right now there's sorrow. I don't envy the pain. But I envy you the pain.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“He couldn't believe it was only Wednesday. And it was made worse when he realized it was actually Tuesday.”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

“She wished Martin hadn't taken his Encyclopaedia Britannica with him when they split up. She missed that more than she missed him.”
― Jenny Diski, The Vanishing Princess