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“It was a well-balanced family with its conservatives and its radicals, its dreamers and its realists.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“Destiny is usually just around the corner. Like a thief, a hooker, or a lottery vendor: its three most common personifications. But what destiny does not do is home visits. You have to go for it yourself.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“People could be good, Furlong reminded himself, as he drove back to town; it was a matter of learning how to manage and balance the give-and-take in a way that let you get on with others as well as your own.”
― Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These

“I was forced to acknowledge too late, much too late, that I too had loved, that I was capable of suffering, and that I was human after all.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men