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“Don’t you want to be alive before you die?”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“Life would happen to him, and he would have to try to answer it, just like the rest of them all.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“Friendship, companionship: it so often defied logic, so often eluded the deserving, so often settled itself on the odd, the bad, the peculiar, the damaged.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“Oh well, this is only temporary. Everything will be better someday. I'll make it better. After all, I'm young yet.”
― Betty Smith, Tomorrow Will Be Better