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“For me, culture is as much about what we encourage as what we actually permit.” David asked what he meant by that, and Sune replied: “That most people don’t do what we tell them to. They do what we let them get away with.”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

“Safety was a dangerous illusion, but Jean still felt the gentle weight of it. He looked out at the ocean to find his center again, hoping the waves and the heat and the impossibly bright sky would burn this ill-advised feeling out of him.”
― Nora Sakavic, The Sunshine Court

“It is difficult - it is very difficult, to befriend where you wish to consume, to find those who, when they ask Do I have you still, when they end a letter with Yours, mean it in any substantive way.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

“I am tired of being called second when I am better than he will ever be. Tonight they’ll see how wrong they were about us.”
― Nora Sakavic, The Sunshine Court