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“Some people accept that they will never be free of their anxiety, they just learn to carry it. She tried to be one of them. She told herself that was why you should always be nice to other people, even idiots, because you never know how heavy their burden is.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“I haven’t been home in years, but I feel that way with you.”
― Christina Lauren, The Soulmate Equation

“They say that a person’s personality is the sum of their experiences. But that isn’t true, at least not entirely, because if our past was all that defined us, we’d never be able to put up with ourselves. We need to be allowed to convince ourselves that we’re more than the mistakes we made yesterday. That we are all of our next choices, too, all of our tomorrows.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“Out there in the world it’s a nonstop murder party, and if I make the slightest mistake I’ll wind up dead.”
― Grady Hendrix, The Final Girl Support Group