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"It doesn't matter how charming you are if there's no one to charm.”

― Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House

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“Do not mistake this kindness. I simply want to be the one who breaks you.”

― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

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“What does it take to know a person? Time. It takes time.”

― Elin Hilderbrand, 28 Summers

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What is a person, if not the marks they leave behind?

― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

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And we hate people for making mistakes so much more than we love them for doing good that the easiest way to live is to do nothing, say nothing, and love no one.

Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You

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“Some of us exist just a little too loudly for the comfort of those who would prefer we did not exist at all”

― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Brothers Hawthorne

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“Loneliness wasn’t having no one. Loneliness was the gap between what you hoped for and what you got.”

― Naoise Dolan, The Happy Couple

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“I am always saying "Glad to've met you" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met.”

― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

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“When words are real enough, when they’re the exact right words, when what you’re saying matters, when it’s beautiful and perfect and true—it hurts.”

― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Brothers Hawthorne

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People were usually much better in their letters than in reality. They were much like poets in this way

― Charles Bukowski, Women

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What I have read in 2023 part II

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What I have read in 2023

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She’s too young. Too attractive. Too easily offended. Too difficult to respect.

-Fredrik Backman, Beartown

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it’s common knowledge that life isn’t worth living, anyhow.

Albert Camus, The Stranger

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As awful as it sounds, money is power, and power is magnetic

Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Game

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She’s fifteen years old and has already fallen in love many times,

Fredrik Backman, Beartown

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— Holly Black, The Wicked King