Quotables @ Bookshelf

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“Memories were short and history unkind. It was the way of the world”

DEBORAH HARKNESS, SHADOW OF NIGHT

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“Even if your heart is broken and attacking you, you’re still not better off without it.”

RAINBOW ROWELL, LANDLINE

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“Time is the longest distance between two places.”

TAMARA IRELAND STONE, TIME BETWEEN US

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“But fear lets us know we’re alive. It tells me that you care about what happens between us because the mind doesn’t waste time being scared about things that don’t matter.”

CORA CARMACK, FAKING IT

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“It was weird the way you could be friends with someone but not really know the ugly parts of their lives. We all had our secrets, I supposed.”

LIZ CZUKAS, ASK AGAIN LATER

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“This is why people cry at the movies: because everybody’s doomed. No one in a movie can help themselves in any way. Their fate has already staked its claim on them from the moment they appear onscreen.”

JOHN DARNIELLE, WOLF IN WHITE VAN

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“If you keep looking, you will find it. It has nothing to do with luck, and everything to do with courage. Be brave.”

JAMIE CHRISTIAN DESPLACES, DUTCH

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“It’s never been a perfect world. It’s never going to be. It’s going to be hard and scary, and if you’re lucky, wonderful and awe-inspiring. But you have to push through the bad parts to get to the good.”

CARRIE RYAN, THE DEAD-TOSSED WAVES

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“Find a woman who makes you feel more alive. She won’t make life perfect but she’ll make it infinitely more interesting. And then love her with all that’s in you.”

GAYLE ROPER, SHADOWS ON THE SAND

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“Sometimes you’ve got to be able to listen to yourself and be okay with no one else understanding.”

CHRISTOPHER BARZAK, ONE FOR SORROW

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“I’m a very ordinary human being; I just happen to like reading books.”

HARUKI MURAKAMI, 1Q84

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“The times you lived through, the people you shared those times with — nothing brings it all to life like an old mix tape. It does a better job of storing up memories than actual brain tissue can do. Every mix tape tells a story. Put them together, and they can add up to the story of a life.”

ROB SHEFFIELD, LOVE IS A MIX TAPE

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“People would come and people would go, I realized then, but music would be there until the end of time.”

LEN VLAHOS, THE SCAR BOYS

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“Some ideas are not born of logic and good sense. They are made of clouds and cobwebs. They sprout from nowhere and feed on excitement, sprinkled with adventure juice and the sweet flavor of the forbidden. The psyche moves from the realms of the ordinary and takes a delicate step towards the unknown. We know we shouldn’t and that is exactly why we do.”

BRIGID LOWRY, GUITAR HIGHWAY ROSE

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“Maybe it explains the reason why one person likes another. It’s because their souls both thrum at the same frequency.”

MARY AMATO, GUITAR NOTES

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“History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.”

JAMES FENIMORE COOPER, THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS

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“Maybe your country is only a place you make up in your own mind. Something you dream about and sing about. Maybe it’s not a place on the map at all, but just a story full of people you meet and places you visit, full of books and films you’ve been to. I’m not afraid of being homesick and having no language to live in. I don’t have to be like anyone else. I’m walking on the wall and nobody can stop me.”

HUGO HAMILTON, THE SPECKLED PEOPLE: A MEMOIR OF A HALF-IRISH CHILDHOOD

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“You love people. They disappoint you. But sometimes, they don’t. They just keep loving you, right through it all, waiting for you to wake up and appreciate them. To say, “I love you. I’ve always loved you back.”

COURTNEY MAUM, I AM HAVING SO MUCH FUN HERE WITHOUT YOU

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“Maturity…is knowing what your limitations are…Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.”

KURT VONNEGUT, CAT’S CRADLE