"The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it or to escape what is bad in it but we will escape it only by adding something better to it."
Wendell Berry
"How did I go from being the maiden in a fairy tale to a wretched old maids so quickly? It happened almost without my realizing it..."
Christina Baker Kline
"A question wells up inside me, a question so big it blocks my throat and makes it hard to breathe. Somehow I swallow it back, finally choosing another. 'Are memories such an important thing?'It depends,' she replies, and closes her eyes. 'In some cases, they're the most important thing there is."
Haruki Murakami
"It's only a two-day hike. But it lasts a lifetime."
National Geographic Society
"I always wanted to be a blonde, and it was really cool to do that for a while."
Alexandra Daddario
"Oh my God - this is scary and sad all at the same time. I literally dream about buying my own groceries. Swear to God. Because it is something that is real and normal."
Rihanna
"I have no doubt that, had I actually been growing up in the 1930s or 1940s, I would have been grooving to turn-of-the-century beats."
Emma Brockes
"All we have is now, this moment. If you live in the future, you’ll miss things, right here, right now, and you’ll regret it later."
Jessica Therrien
"I reached out and placed my hand on the book and thought maybe someday I wouldn't need the bruises or the scars anymore. Maybe someday it would be all right for the scars to go away."
Han Nolan
"Nothing stays forgotten for long, Elly. Sometimes we simply have to remind the world that we're still here."
Sarah Winman
"Why come back to this empty house, and this Manila with a strange face; the one I never knew? All those lonely islands. They will keep afloat without me."
V.J. Campilan
"Gallows humor is part of having a doctor in the house. Deal with it."
J.R. Ward
"Kenny rested his hand on my leg, patting it delicately. His thoughts staying just that, thoughts, as we drove in silence, back to my prison of paradise, back to the one place I knew I could be happy, yet miserable, all in the same day."
Holly Hood
"I feel sorry for Rick Astley, one day he is going to die and nobody will know about it for weeks because nobody will want to click the link."
Ade Bozzay
"If you aren’t ready, you spend your whole life perseverating on that one situation, getting it wrong time and again. I like to think I am a woman who learns her lesson, but the trick is that you can only ever understand your life backwards, but you live it forward."
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