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Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first woman she meets and then teams up with three complete strangers to kill again.

—Rick Polito

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It's crazy, that the defining moment of your life can be nothing to someone else. Like an infatuation, an unrequited love, every bit of you is drawn to it, orbits that heaviness at the center of your universe, everything you think and feel revolving around it and yet, nobody knows. Even the one who caused it. Especially the one who caused it.

—Leah Raeder in Black Iris

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I think the best vacation is the one that relieves me of my own life for a while and then makes me long for it again.

—Ann Patchett in This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage

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This world doesn't need showy champions. It needs people who are good, people who do good, even if nobody will ever know.

—William Ritter in The Dire King

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There's something so terrible about wanting something you've already had. You know exactly what you're missing.

—Leah Raeder in Unteachable

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People seem able to love their dogs with an unabashed acceptance that they rarely demonstrate with family or friends. The dogs do not disappoint them, or if they do, the owners manage to forget about it quickly. I want to learn to love people like this, the way I love my dog, with pride and enthusiasm and a complete amnesia for faults. In short, to love others the way my dog loves me.

—Ann Patchett in This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage

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Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.

—Orson Welles

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You should love something while you have it, love it fully and without reservation, even if you know you'll lose it someday. We lose everything. If you're trying to avoid loss, there's no point in taking another breath, or letting your heart beat one more time. It all ends.

—Leah Raeder in Unteachable

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I think that is why we stay close to our families, no matter how neurotic the members, how deeply annoying or dull―because when people have seen you at your worst, you don't have to put on the mask as much.

—Anne Lamott in Traveling Mercies

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I like to play chess with old men in the park. But it's so hard to find 32 of them.

—Emo Phillips

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Everything ends, every single relationship you will ever have in your lifetime is going to end. I'll die, you'll die, you'll get tired of each other. You don't always know how it's going to happen, but it is always going to happen. So stop trying to make everything permanent, it doesn't work. I want you to go out there and find some nice man you have no intention of spending the rest of your life with. You can be very, very happy with people you aren't going to marry.

—Ann Patchett in This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage

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Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.

—Ann Patchett in State of Wonder

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If he never loved her the way she loved him, it was going to be okay. It was truly better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. Her heart would survive this, and would be richer for having known him.

—Lori Wilde in Back in the Game

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Friendships take just as much TLC as romantic relationships.

—Lori Wilde in Somebody to Love

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Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in.

—Evan Davis

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