“And most of all, books. They were, in and of themselves, reasons to stay alive. Every book written is the product of a human mind in a particular state. Add all the books together and you get the end sum of humanity. Every time I read a great book I felt I was reading a kind of map, a treasure map, and the treasure I was being directed to was in actual fact myself.”
― Reasons to Stay Alive
― Reasons to Stay Alive
“There is no standard normal. Normal is subjective. There are seven billion versions of normal on this planet.”
― Reasons to Stay Alive
― Reasons to Stay Alive
“It was like stepping barefoot on a sharp bit of broken glass. She pulled the glass out and ran on, but the pain remained.”
― The Things We Do for Love
― The Things We Do for Love
“Maybe love is just about finding the person you can be your weird self with.”
― Reasons to Stay Alive
― Reasons to Stay Alive
“Meg is planning your wedding? Honey, that’s like asking the pope to plan a bar mitzvah.”
― Between Sisters
― Between Sisters
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