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“For You, A thousand times over.”

-The Kite Runner; Khaled Hosseini

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"You're going to be OK, All you can do is forge on ahead."

- Kafka On The Shore; Murakami

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"That people have enough to live by but nothing to live for; they have the means but no meaning."

- Man's Search for Meaning; Viktor E. Frankl

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"If voices could be drinks, his was a centuries-old vintage whiskey, rolling off the tongue, down the throat, leaving a trail of fire inside, making every cell in the body aware that it had been consumed."

- The Predator; Runyx; Dark Verse Series

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"Something inside me is entirely his. Something I know would follow me into the next life, or beyond that, even if I left this body behind."

- Out On a Limb; Hannah Bonam-Young

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"Because freedom, I am told, is nothing but the distance between the hunter and its prey."

- On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous; Ocean Vuong

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"I miss you like a home."

- Red, White and Royal Blue; Casey McQuiston

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"I know now that some people feel unhappiness the way others love: privately, intensely, and without recourse."

- And the Mountains Echoed; Khaled Hosseini.

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Maybe part of falling in love with someone else is also falling in love with yourself. I like who I am with her. I like that I say what's on my mind. I like that I barrel ahead despite the obstacles she raises. Normally I would give up, but not today.

- The sun is also a star; Nicola Yoon

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It's just that, when hilariously bad things happen, I leave my body. I watch them happen from outside myself and think, Really? This is what the universe has chosen to do? A bit on the nose, isn't it?

- Book Lovers; Emily Henry

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I think it's foolish to think the pain of a writer's past doesn't inadvertently find itself woven within the heart of their work.

- You & I, Rewritten; Chip Pons

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Some things were so ingrained from childhood that they became a part of us without us even knowing. After a lifetime of being unwanted, I had no clue how to handle someone who wasn't willing to walk away.

Jules, Twisted Hate, Ana Huang

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"This will last until the day roses on my grave stop sharing roots with the roses on yours."

-Gothikana; RuNyx

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"That was love, wasn't it? It wasn't just a quick drop- it was falling, over and over again, for your person. It was falling as they became new people. It was learning how to exist with every new breath. It was uncertain and it was undeniably hard, and it wasn't something you could plan for. Love was an invitation into the wild unknown, one step at a time together."

-The Seven Year Slip; Ashley Poston

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"That was what I'd always loved about reading, what had driven me to write in the first place. That feeling that a new world was being spun like a spiderweb around you and you couldn't move until the whole thing had revealed itself to you."

Beach Read; Emily Henry

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"But the thing is, jumping off cliff is kinda my thing. That's the choice. I love him, with all that, because of all that. On purpose. I love him on purpose."

-Red,White and Royal Blue; Casey McQuiston