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“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“There's always something we don't know anything about." she said. "More than we like to admit. The more we discover, the more we realize we don't fully understand. Our world, our solar system, the universe... it all adds up. I mean, when you think about it-- do we even know that much about ourselves?”
― Ross Montgomery, Perijee & Me

“For what matters if I gain the whole world, but lose my soul?”
― Craig Thompson, Blankets

“Life with a cheat code isn't life. Our existence isn't something to be engineered or optimized for the avoidance of pain. That's what it is to be human - the beauty and the pain, each meaningless without the other.”
― Blake Crouch, Recursion

“There are so few things in our existence we can count on to give us the sense of permanence, of the ground beneath our feet. People fail us. Our bodies fail us. We fail ourselves. He's experienced all of that. But what do you cling to, moment to moment, if memories can simply change. What, then, is real? And if the answer is nothing, where does that leave us?”
― Blake Crouch, Recursion

“I know everything feels hopeless to you in this moment, but this is just a moment, and moments pass.”
― Blake Crouch, Recursion

“This low point isn't the book of your life. It's just a chapter.”
― Blake Crouch, Recursion

“Is déjà vu actually the specter of false timelines that never happened but did, casting their shadows upon reality?”
― Blake Crouch, Recursion

“Saint Augustine said it perfectly back in the fourth century: “What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.”
― Blake Crouch, Recursion

“The three most important people in her life are gone, and she will never see them again. The stark loneliness of that knowledge cuts her to the bone.
She is forty-nine, and she wonders if this is what feeling old really means -- not just a physical deterioration, but an interpersonal. A growing silence caused by the people you most love, who have shaped you and defined your world, going on ahead into whatever comes after.”
― Blake Crouch, Recursion

“Work is the only thing that makes her feel alive, and she’s wondered, on more than one occasion, if that means she’s broken.”
― Blake Crouch, Recursion

“We're more than the sum total of our choices, that all the paths we might have taken factor somehow into the math of our identity.”
― Blake Crouch, Dark Matter

“We are abused. We are used. We are bartered and abandoned. But rarely are we loved.”
― Amy Harmon, The First Girl Child

“It was you who taught me that the only sacrifice with any power is the one that is willingly made”
― Amy Harmon, The First Girl Child

“To sh-show you mercy now would be to sh-show no mercy to those you will p-prey upon next.”
― Amy Harmon, The First Girl Child

“To love was to be at the mercy of someone else. To love was to be controlled.”
― Amy Harmon, The First Girl Child

“The worst part about doing something inexcusable is that you can never take it back. It's like breaking a glass. It can't unbreak. The best you can do it sweep it up, and hope you don't step on the slivers you left behind.”
― Neal Shusterman, Dry

“Which is worse, I wonder - watching everyone you know fall into that ravine, or shaking their reality with such force that it ruins them”
― Neal Shusterman, Dry

“If you could make people who are full of hate seem likeable, maybe you could change the way people think about hate itself.”
― Rhett J. Evans, The Echo Chamber

“Technology is like every other market good, it serves those who have the money to build it and crushes those underneath”
― Rhett J. Evans, The Echo Chamber

“The easiest lies to tell are the ones you want to be true.”
― Holly Black, White Cat

“We are, largely, who we remember ourselves to be. That's why habits are so hard to break. If we know ourselves to be liars, we expect not to tell the truth. If we think of ourselves as honest, we try harder.”
― Holly Black, White Cat

“I can't trust the people I care about not to hurt me. And I'm not sure I can trust myself not to hurt them, either.”
― Holly Black, White Cat

“I finally discovered that the love I have for my children is the most powerful thing on earth. It's fierce and determined and an absolute force to be reckoned with. I would do anything for them. On a good day I know that I am far from a perfect mother, but I am all they have, and all I can do is to make sure that I expend every breath trying to do my best.”
― Kelly Rimmer, Truths I Never Told You

“Loneliness is so much worse than sadness, because loneliness, by definition, cannot be shared.”
― Kelly Rimmer, Truths I Never Told You

“You crushed us to build your monarchy on the backs of our blood and bone. Your mistake wasn't keeping us alive. it was thinking we'd never fight back”
― Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Blood and Bone

“..through the act of reading my words, the patterns that form your thoughts become an imitation of the patterns that once formed mine. And in that way I live again, through you.”
― Ted Chiang, Eclipse Two

“Here's an idea for you: ideas are a bad idea”
― Katherine Applegate, Wishtree

“My point," Bongo continued, "is that the world's a tough place. Doesn't matter if you're a bunny or a lizard or a kid.”
― Katherine Applegate, Wishtree

“We are all of us more complicated than the roles we are assigned in the stories other people tell”
― Tara Westover, Educated