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“Nothing could convince me this woman wasn’t made for me to love. I think my soul recognized hers the second I laid eyes on her.” - Abby Jimenez, Part of Your World

“He’s sunburned across his nose and his white skin is heavily freckled, like summer has been trying to mark him as her favorite.” - E. Lockhart, We Fell Apart

“I loved how a book, a story, a set of words in a sentence organized in the exact right order, made you miss places you’ve never visited, and people you’ve never met.” - Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

“A parent’s love for their child is bottomless. Their children remain their children, no matter how old they grow.” - Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Tales from the Café

“I want to find work that is worth spending a lifetime on.” - Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Tales from the Café

“The gentleness I see from the raging woman now is all it takes to know how much she loves him. It’s not something she’d ever talk about. It’s not her way. But the sharp edge she has for everything and everyone is dull tonight. Like she sees [him] as a refuge, a place where she can be safe.” - Pierce Brown, Morning Star

“She felt like the sun. Like she was the reason for everything. Like I’d always been waiting for her to get closer and bring me to life.” - Abby Jimenez, Part of Your World

"Their voices has that end of the workday lift--a false brilliance composed of the hope that old dreams would be fulfilled, yet colored by the knowledge that life would not change for them." - Frank Herbert, Heretics of Dune

"Shared danger is the strongest of bonds." - Livy, History of Rome

"This alone is certain, namely that there is no such thing as certainty." - Pliny the Elder, Natural History

"I weep for Narcissus, but I never noticed that Narcissus was beautiful. I weep because, each time he knelt beside my banks, I could see, in the depths of his eyes, my own beauty reflected." - Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

"It's important to stand still sometimes. Think of it as a little rest in the long journey of your life. This is your harbor. And your boat is just dropping anchor here for a little while. And after you're well rested, you can set sail again." - Satoshi Yagisawa, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Translation by Eric Ozawa)

"If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the Universe would turn to a mighty stranger." - Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights