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Fourth Wing
“A dragon without its rider is a tragedy. A rider without their dragon is dead.”
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Good Material
“Getting dumped is never really about getting dumped. […] It’s about every rejection you’ve ever experienced in your entire life.”
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Priestdaddy
“Who would I be if I hadn’t been frightened? What hurt me, and what would I be if it hadn’t?”
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Is This OK?
“I’ve always been told that most people are too inward-looking to judge anyone else’s actions. […] The tragic truth is that I am always thinking about someone else.”
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The Remains of the Day
“After all, what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished?”
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The Happy Couple
“Loneliness wasn’t having no one. Loneliness was the gap between what you hoped for and what you got.”
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Shoedog
“When you see only problems, you’re not seeing clearly.”
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The Miniaturist
“Everything Man sees he takes for a toy. Thus is he always, forever a boy.”
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I’m In Seattle, Where Are You?
“People devote more effort to correcting the errors of the past than they do to improving the future.”
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The Cement Garden
“At the back of my mind I had a sense of us sitting about waiting for some terrible event, and then I would remember that it had already happened.”