Sometimes you can do everything right and things will still go wrong. The key is to never stop doing right.
—Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give
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The act of singing gives the most mundane words and phrases reverence and glory. You can make a shrine out of anything.
—Florence Welch, Useless Magic
In a country that doesn’t discriminate between fame and infamy, the latter presents itself as plainly more achievable.
—Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin
Stupid people are dangerous.
—Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the society of clever women.
–Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
He yearned to step out of his life the way one steps out of a house into the street.
—Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
I desired to see new things. I desired to experience volumes.
—Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated
There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.
—Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
No one who is good can ever be ugly.
—Roald Dahl, The Twits
Happiness is harder to put into words. It’s also harder to source, much more mysterious than anger or sorrow, which come to me promptly, whenever I summon them, and remain long after I’ve begged them to leave.
—David Sedaris, Calypso