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Nihilism is best done by professionals.

—Iggy Pop

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Normally seven minutes of another person's company was enough to give her a headache so she set things up to live as a recluse. She was perfectly content as long as people left her in peace. Unfortunately society was not very smart or understanding.

—Stieg Larsson in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

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Regret is such a miserable word. But there have been plenty of times alone, where I wished I took the risk and gave someone my heart, and not just a sliver of it. After one stumble, you've pulled the shutters down. Closed up shop. I'm just saying, don't waste your life protecting your heart, or you'll get to the end of it and realize it wasn't worth it.

—Rebecca Raisin in The Little Antique Shop under the Eiffel Tower

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Music can transport you to another time with a couple of notes. It makes you feel the heartbreak or the love, right along with the singer. The right song speaks to your soul in a way nothing else can. It's magic.

—Cindi Madsen in Cipher

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When the sun is shining, think of the time it won't be, because even when you're sitting in your house with the doors shut, misfortune can fall from above.

—Lisa See in Shanghai Girls

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There was something about the smallest gestures with him that made me feel like a teenager again. I told myself to just enjoy it.

—Cindi Madsen in Cinderella Screwed Me Over

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Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

—Maya Angelou

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Marriage, it seemed to me, walled my favorite fictional women off from the worlds in which they had once run free, or, if not free, then at least forward, with currents of narrative possibility at their backs. It was often at just the moment that their educations were complete and their childhood ambitions coming into focus that these troublesome, funny girls were suddenly contained, subsumed, and reduced by domesticity.

—Rebecca Traister in All the Single Ladies

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Shyness takes so many different forms. Some people are shy and soft. Some, shy and hard.

—Sally Thorne in The Hating Game

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You are loved. Massively. Ferociously. Unconditionally. The Universe is totally freaking out about how awesome you are. It's got you wrapped in a warm gorilla hug of adoration. It wants to give you everything you desire. It wants you to be happy. It wants you to see what it sees in you.

—Jen Sincero in You Are a Badass

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You know what uranium is, right? It's this thing called nuclear weapons. And other things. Like lots of things are done with uranium. Including some bad things.

—Donald Trump

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You were my beautiful mistake and I don't regret anything. I would do it all again in a heartbeat.

—Michael Faudet in Bitter Sweet Love

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What stays with me most is a general sense of loss, unease, and longing for the past that cannot be relieved.

—Lisa See in Shanghai Girls

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The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it.

—Doris Day

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I have always wanted a bunny and I'll always have a rabbit the rest of my life.

—Amy Sedaris

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