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Unless you've touched a corpse before, you can't comprehend the visceral wrongness of inert flesh wrapped around an inanimate object that wears your mother's face. You feel sick with guilt and regret and sadness about inconsequential anecdote. You can't remember anything thoughtful or sweet or tender that you ever did even though logically you know you must have. All you can recall is how often you were small and petty and false. She was your mother and she loved you in a way nobody ever has and nobody ever will and now she's gone.

—Elan Mastai in All Our Wrong Todays

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Most often in the summertime, she's holed up somewhere with a book, sometimes not saying more than a few words in a whole day.

—Katrin Schumann in The Forgotten Hours

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I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.

—E. V. Lucas

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Doubt is the father of invention.

—Ambrose Bierce

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The charitable acts that count the most are those done without anyone knowing.

—Elin Hilderbrand in The Perfect Couple

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Falling in love is not rational. It's madness. A beautiful, wonderful moment of magnificent insanity.

—Michael Faudet in Bitter Sweet Love

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The work here isn't to figure out why they didn't like you, or who's right and who's wrong. It's to practice being okay with the idea that there are some people who will get you and some people who won't…and that's fine.

—Reshma Saujani in Not Perfect

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You think you know how a story begins, or how it's going to turn out, especially when it's your own. You don't.

—Edan Lepucki in Woman No. 17

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That was the very best part of loving someone. Wanting to do anything she could to become the kind of woman who could feel worthy of a man like him.

—RaeAnne Thayne in Currant Creek Valley

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How disappointing when people succumb to what is expected of them.

—Lauren Groff in Arcadia

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There are five people you meet in heaven. Each of us was in your life for a reason. You may not have known the reason at the time, and that is what heaven is for. For understanding your life on earth.

—Mitch Albom in The Five People You Meet in Heaven

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Sometimes you don't even realize anything is wrong until someone comes along and changes you, and makes you want more.

—Mia Sheridan in Stinger

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I'm afraid to love you. I'm afraid that you'll leave and that I'll go back to being alone again. Only it will be a hundred times worse because I'll know what I'm missing.

—Mia Sheridan in Archer's Voice

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Fame warps your identity, metastasizes your anxieties, and hollows you out like a jack-o'-lantern. It's sparkly pixie dust that burns whatever it touches like acid.

—Elan Mastai in All Our Wrong Todays

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The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.

—George Bernard Shaw

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