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Sometimes you have to let go of the picture of what you thought life would be like and learn to find joy in the story you are actually living.

—Rachel Marie Martin in The Brave Art of Motherhood

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I didn't know love felt like this, like turning into brightness.

—Jandy Nelson in The Sky Is Everywhere

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Anger is like that. Runs on its own fumes, devours itself voraciously, explosively, until one day there is no fire left. Only pure, cold, unbreakable hardness.

—Leah Raeder in Black Iris

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The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.

—Lily Tomlin

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When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.

—William Hazlitt

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Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.

—G. K. Chesterton

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If you haven't already, you will lose someone you can't live without, and your heart will be badly broken, and you never completely get over the loss of a deeply beloved person. But this is also good news. The person lives forever, in your broken heart that doesn't seal back up. And you come through, and you learn to dance with the banged-up heart.

—Anne Lamott in Plan B

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Getting found almost always means being lost for a while.

—Anne Lamott in Small Victories

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A little nonsense now and then, is relished by the wisest men.

—Unknown

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People often feel threatened by things that are different. It reflects their ignorance, not your reality.

—Lori Wilde in Love of the Game

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Although it's good to try new things and to keep an open mind, it's also extremely important to stay true to who you really are.

—Gail Honeyman in Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

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You've just got to accept that your first love is your greatest, and everything else is going to be second-best. But second-best is better than nothing at all.

—Amy Plum in Die for Her

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If someone asks you how you are, you are meant to say FINE. You are not meant to say that you cried yourself to sleep last night because you hadn't spoken to another person for two consecutive days. FINE is what you say.

—Gail Honeyman in Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

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Being loved is a good thing. A grand thing. The best damned thing of all.

—Lori Wilde in High Stakes Seduction

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I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, 'I'd like some fries.' The girl at the counter said, 'Would you like some fries with that?

—Jay Leno

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