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“I put my hand on the altar rail. 'What if ... what if Heaven is real, but only in moments? Like a glass of water on a hot day when you're dying of thirst, or when someone's nice to you for no reason, or ...' Mam's pancakes with Toblerone sauce; Dad dashing up from the bar just to tell me, 'Sleep tight, don't let the bedbugs bite'; or Jacko and Sharon singing 'For She's A Squishy Marshmallow' instead of 'For She's A Jolly Good Fellow' every single birthday and wetting themselves even though it's not at all funny; and Brendan giving his old record player to me instead of one of his mates. 'S'pose Heaven's not like a painting that's just hanging there for ever, but more like ... Like the best song anyone ever wrote, but a song you only catch in snatches, while you're alive, from passing cars, or ... upstairs windows when you're lost ...”
― David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks

“It is her right to have fun, to keep playing. To not help with dinner.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Carrie Soto Is Back

“There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“My older self knows that you must stop—in the middle of the chaos—to take in the world around you.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Carrie Soto Is Back