Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.
—Veronica Roth, Insurgent
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We are survivors, of each other. We have been shark to one another, but also lifeboat. That counts for something.
—Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye
Books, she has found, are a way to live a thousand lives—or to find strength in a very long one.
—V. E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
Words never mean what what we want them to mean. If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood.
—Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated
Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
—Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s
In principle and reality, libraries are life-enhancing palaces of wonder.
—Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
It’s good to be foolish from time to time. It keeps your spirit young.
—Ottessa Moshfegh, Eileen
We sleep when we don’t love.
—Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
She knows that killing a person does almost-invisible things to you; it leaves you arm-linked with death, your head tilted just a degree that way, so that for the rest of your life your shadows mix together.
—Tana French, The Secret Place
If you want something you can have it, but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the despair, and only if you’re willing to risk failure.
—Philip Pullman, Clockwork
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