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“I think that when you’re reading about death as entertainment, it should leave you feeling slightly uncomfortable, even slightly sick.”
― Alex Pavesi, The Eighth Detective

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.”
― George R. R. Martin

“Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.”
― Anita Brookner, Hotel du Lac

“The reading of a fine book is an uninterrupted dialogue in which the book speaks and our soul replies.”
― Andre Maurois

“An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”
― Niels Bohr

“In the few sessions they'd had together, Sophia had become a sort of sheet anchor in the ocean of his consciousness. And now she was going to sever the anchor chain”
― Sebastian Fitzek, Der Seelenbrecher

“We all look at the world through the lens created by our experiences. In order to really understand someone's issues, you have to figure out what shaped their lens”
― Stacy Green, Lost Angels

“Seems you don't always need lots of education to be wise”
― Cherry Radford, The Spanish House: A heartwarming escapist romance novel of family secrets and love set in sunny Spain!

“Life is the last thing you can ever take from someone. No matter how evil a person, murder is an act that robs us of our humanity and from which there is no return”
― S.E. Lynes, The One to Blame

“And just like that we are talking about fictional problems in fictional worlds, where there is usually a happy ending and narrative growth for the protagonist; not sadness, solitude and more of the same as far as the eye can see”
― Dawn Goodwin, What I Never Told You

“It is better to have a world united than a world divided; but it is also better to have a world divided than a world destroyed.”
― James C. Humes, The Wit & Wisdom of Winston Churchill

“I am unable to describe exactly what is the matter with me; now and then there are horrible fits of anxiety, apparently without cause, or otherwise a feeling of emptiness and fatigue in the head.”
― Vincent van Gogh

“The most common and the monstrous defect in the education of the day is that children fail to acquire the habit of reading.”
― Charlotte Mason

“There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.”
― Soren Kierkegaard

“The secrets she had been trusted to keep, the confessions she had heard, the pasts she had revealed and the futures she had foretold returned, not so much as memories, but rather they seeped from the dark, draped walls of the booth and swirled around her and through her like ghosts. They were a part of her that she could never fully escape”
― Ruth Hogan, The Moon, the Stars, and Madame Burova

“Jessie, regardless of the emotional upheaval she was in, still loved a mystery. And she had a sense this was going to be an interesting one”
― S.A. Dunphy, Dancing with the Dead

“Nico's a good man, but like many men, he treats pregnant women like fragile flowers. They overlook the fact that, over the course of history, through famines, epidemics, and other extreme conditions, women survived longer and better than men. Having babies? A walk in the park next to what most men could endure. But whatever”
― Alex Finlay, The Night Shift

“All adults have days when we feel completely drained. When we no longer know quite what we spend so much time fighting for, when reality and everyday worries overwhelm us and we wonder how much longer we’re going to be able to carry on. The wonderful thing is that we can all live through far more days like that without breaking than we think. The terrible thing is that we never know exactly how many.”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

“But if time exists only in my head, and I'm the last human being, it will end with my death. The thought cheers me. I may be in a position to murder time. The big net will tear and fall, with its sad contents, into oblivion. I'm owed some gratitude, but no one after my death will know I murdered time. Really these thoughts are quite meaningless. Things happen, and, like millions of people before me, I look for meaning in them, because my vanity will not allow me to admit that the whole meaning of an event lies in the event itself.”
― Marlen Haushofer, The Wall

“If they hate your race,
pardon them.
If they hate your religion,
enlighten them.
If they hate your gender,
admonish them.
If they hate your class,
avoid them.
If they hate your politics,
debate them.

If they hate your culture,
question them.
If they hate your tribe,
confront them.
If they hate your ancestry,
defy them.
If they hate your age,
outshine them.
If they hate your appearance,
disregard them.

If they love you for your knowledge,
teach them.
If they love you for your wisdom,
counsel them.
If they love you for your understanding,
instruct them.
If they love you for your intuition,
guide them.
If they love you for your excellence,
inspire them.

If they love you for your humility,
honor them.
If they love you for your compassion,
welcome them.
If they love you for your honesty,
value them.
If they love you for your kindness,
treasure them.
If they love you for your virtue,
cherish them.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“I can't stop the bitter laugh. The journey this morning was simple, but the years preceding it have been a tangle of hurt and pain. We have been on the sort of dark, dirty road that no one should have to tread to get to this run-down place of dwindling hope”
― Anna Stuart, The Midwife of Auschwitz

“He's never believed in fate. But it seems he was wrong.  His two worlds are colliding as though they were meant to all along, and he has been powerless to stop them. He has done a terrible wrong and this, in the end, is how he is to be punished”
― Louise Fein, The Hidden Child

“For the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth - that Love is the ultimate and highest goal to which man can aspire. Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“That's what your partner should be: someone who shines a steady beam of light ahead of you no matter what crazy thing you want to do”
― Tracy Rees, The Little House by the Sea

“Ironically, a side effect of war was learning how to live each day as it came while hoping and believing in a better tomorrow”
― Elaine Stock, Our Daughters' Last Hope

“It was ten o'clock in the morning and she really should consider getting dressed... yet last night had been rather a late one and sitting here with her pup, her tea and still in her silk pyjamas with pillows propping her up and nothing to do except read the paper, well, it was louche and lazy and... utterly, utterly wonderful”
― fliss chester

“A society without democracy is a society of slaves and fools.”
― Zaman Ali, ZAMANISM Wealth of the People

“Unintentionally, I've pulled the pin and lobbed a grenade into an already explosive situation”
― Julia Roberts, The Dilemma