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
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
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
The only way I could describe what kissing him felt like was, like the last day of school, knowing that months of freedom and sunshine lay before you, the feeling that you could do anything you wanted and time stretched out in endless possibilities.
—Robin Benway in Emmy & Oliver
My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.
—Ronald Reagan
Do you stop loving someone just because they betray you? I don't think so. That's what makes the betrayal hurt so much—pain, frustration, anger…and I still loved her. I still do.
—Brandon Sanderson in The Way of Kings
Sometimes you can do everything right and things will still go wrong. The key is to never stop doing right.
—Angie Thomas in The Hate U Give
An optimist stays up to see the New Year in. A pessimist waits to make sure the old one leaves.
—Bill Vaughan
When a daughter loses a mother, the intervals between grief responses lengthen over time, but her longing never disappears. It always hovers at the edge of her awareness, ready to surface at any time, in any place, in the least expected ways. This isn't pathological. It's normal. It's why you find yourself, at twenty-four, or thirty-five or forty-three, unwrapping a present or walking down an aisle or crossing a busy street, doubled over and missing your mother.
—Hope Edelman in Motherless Daughters
The universe might respect the law of attraction, but it respects a good hustle even more.
—Lilly Singh in How to Be a Bawse
You remember your first love because they show you, prove to you, that you can love and be loved, that nothing in this world is deserved except for love, that love is both how you become a person, and why.
—John Green in Turtles All the Way Down
Sometimes when you like where you end up, you don't care how you got there.
—Tayari Jones in An American Marriage
The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
It doesn't make a difference what temperature a room is, it's always room temperature.
—Steven Wright
It snuck up on me—growing up, I mean.
—Jenny Han in Lara Jean