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Love comes when you least expect it. Love comes when you most need it. Love comes when you are ready to receive it or can no longer deny it.

—Mitch Albom in The Next Person You Meet in Heaven

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You're driving in the car and you feel like your whole world has fallen apart. And people in the car beside you are laughing and carrying on. Their life is normal, and you think, 'What gives you the right to laugh?' Because nothing has happened to them. You don't understand how everything else can go on normally when your life will never be normal again. Ever.

—Hope Edelman in Motherless Daughters

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My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.

—Vladimir Nabokov

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Sometimes, I don't want to go anywhere, I think I'll be happy if I never have to set foot outside the house again.

—Paula Hawkins in The Girl on the Train

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Working hard feels good. Of course it's exhausting and stressful and causes you to miss a party or two, but at the end of the day it is so rewarding. One of the best feelings in the world is when you know that luck didn't play a role in your success. Doing work eliminates the need for luck.

—Lilly Singh in How to Be a Bawse

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Honestly, I don't care what we do. I just want to stay wrapped around him for as long as possible, fighting sleep and forgetting about the rest of the world.

—Karen M. McManus in One of Us Is Lying

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You know how sometimes you realize you're doing or saying the wrong thing, but you just can't stop yourself? You can literally hear the words coming out of your mouth and you just want to shove them back in because the real you, the good you, would never want to be this way, but you just keep going?

—Robin Benway in Also Known As

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Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from the inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves.

—Mitch Albom in The Five People You Meet in Heaven

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Everything is in a state of flux, including the status quo.

—Robert Byrne

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A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.

—Jessamyn West

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There are young women who have goals other than finding a husband.

—Lisa Kleypas in Devil in Spring

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Sometimes I wish we'd met when we were twenty-seven. Twenty-seven sounds like a good age to meet the person you're going to spend the rest of your life with. At twenty-seven, you are still young, but hopefully you are well on your way to being the you you want to be.

—Jenny Han in Lara Jean

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Most of the time, everyone deserves more than one chance. We all do things we regret now and then.

—Celeste Ng in Little Fires Everywhere

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Loving someone was traumatizing. You never knew what would happen to them out there in the world. Everything precious was also vulnerable.

—Mary H.K. Choi in Emergency Contact

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That's when I first learned about true frustration, that wrenching ache when the thing that matters most to you barely makes a ripple in other people's lives.

—Robin Benway in Emmy & Oliver

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