She only ever read a prayer book in big letters and in Latin. She did not understand Latin but she understood the book.
—Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
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Once you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it.
—Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated
I wasn’t aware that words could hold so much. I didn’t know a sentence could be so full.
—Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
—Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle
“You love me. Real or not real?”
I tell him, “Real.”
—Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay
You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.
—Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
It’s a dark place, not knowing. It’s difficult to surrender to. But I guess it’s where we live most of the time. I guess it’s where we all live, so maybe it doesn’t have to be so lonely. Maybe I can settle into it, cozy up to it, make a home inside uncertainty.
—Nina LaCour, We Are Okay
Stop whining about getting old. It’s a privilege.
― Amy Poehler, Yes Please
People who claim that they’re evil are usually no worse than the rest of us. It’s people who claim that they’re good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.
—Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
As they say, history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.
—Margaret Atwood, The Testaments
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