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“In principle and reality, libraries are life-enhancing palaces of wonder.”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

“Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
― Anaïs Nin

“Be a little kinder than you have to.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“Silence is a protective coating over pain.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“Never take a seat in the back of the room. Winners sit up front.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“the cardinal rule: You never have to take back words you don’t say.”
― Harlan Coben, The Stranger

“The world doesn’t give even the slightest damn about us or our petty problems. We never quite get that, do we? Our lives have been shattered—shouldn’t the rest of us take notice? But no.”
― Harlan Coben, The Stranger

“We humans can’t see straight. We are always biased. We always protect our own interests.”
― Harlan Coben, The Stranger

“The hunchback sees the hump of others—never his own.”
― Harlan Coben, The Stranger

“The earth is speaking to us, but we can't hear because of all the racket our senses are making. Sometimes we need to erase them, erase our senses. Then - maybe - the earth will touch us. The universe will speak. The stars will whisper.”
― Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl

“She was bendable light: she shone around every corner of my day.”
― Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl

“It's in the morning, for most of us. It's that time, those few seconds when we're coming out of sleep but we're not really awake yet. For those few seconds we're something more primitive than what we are about to become. We have just slept the sleep of our most distant ancestors, and something of them and their world still clings to us. For those few moments we are unformed, uncivilized. We are not the people we know as ourselves, but creatures more in tune with a tree than a keyboard. We are untitled, unnamed, natural, suspended between was and will be, the tadpole before the frog, the worm before the butterfly. We are for a few brief moments, anything and everything we could be. And then...and then -- ah -- we open our eyes and the day is before us and ... we become ourselves.”
― Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl

“Star people are rare.”
― Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl

“Nothing’s more fun than being carried away.”
― Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl

“Heart and head are contrary historians.”
― Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl

“Every name is real. That's the nature of names.”
― Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl

“Nobody has the time, the time cannot be owned. The time is free to everyone”
― Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl

“Events become feelings, feelings become events. Head and heart are contrary historians.”
― Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl

“I understood. I suffered. But whose sake was I suffering for? I kept thinking of Señor Saguaro's question: Whose affection do you value more, hers or the others'?”
― Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl

“At some point as adults we cease to be our parents' children and we become our children's parents instead.”
― William Landay, Defending Jacob: A Novel

“The interior of a teenager’s mind is an endless war between Stupid and Clever.”
― William Landay, Defending Jacob: A Novel

“An emotion is a thought, yes, an idea, but it is also a sensation, an ache in your body. Desire, love, hate, fear, repulsion - you feel these things in your muscle and bones, not just in your mind.”
― William Landay, Defending Jacob: A Novel

“the act does not create guilt unless the mind is also guilty.”
― William Landay, Defending Jacob: A Novel

“but good friendships require complementary personalities, not identical ones.”
― William Landay, Defending Jacob: A Novel

“Somewhere she had learned that if an interviewer remains silent, the interviewee will rush to fill the silence.”
― William Landay, Defending Jacob

“Confirmation bias is the tendency to see things in your environment that confirm your preconceived ideas and not see things that conflict with what you already believe.”
― William Landay, Defending Jacob

“Maybe that’s normal. The things you care most about are the ones that leave the biggest holes.”
― Francesca Zappia, Eliza and Her Monsters

“I don't want to be the girl who freezes when confronted with new friends, or the outside world, or the smallest shred of intimacy. I don't want to be alone in a room all the time. I don't want to feel alone in a room all the time, even when there are other people around.”
― Francesca Zappia, Eliza and Her Monsters