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It's too hard to hate a belief without hating the believer.

Mr. Texas by Lawrence Wright

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"History is one long struggle for sanity." "Especially in Texas," said Ezer.

Mr. Texas by Lawrence Wright

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When you're young the world is spilling over with possibilities, and you're out there shopping for your future, maybe this, maybe that, trying on destinies to see which one fits. So you choose or you just let life happen; either way you might become aware some night when you should be prancing through dreamland that there's a hole in the place where there should be the fully realized you. You missed a turn back there. Night after night the hollowness expands as you watch the possible destinies take their leave. Nobody's coming to your rescue. And then the truth rolls in like a giant wave that drowns your spirit and you realize that you're nothing more than what the stars see, that pitiable speck in the universe.

Mr. Texas by Lawrence Wright

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Once again, the stars mocked him. Out here you were fully aware of the speckness of your existence in the universe, the majesty of eternal creation compared with the swift and insignificant transit of one such as yourself. Nothing in your life made any difference in the countenance of the heavens bearing down on you, no more than the mountains and the cows and the rattlesnakes.

Mr. Texas by Lawrence Wright

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I didn't intentionally gravitate towards stories of women. I was interested in human rights, which often boiled down to this question: who was winning and who was losing? And over and over again, country after country, story after story, it was the men who were winning and the women who were losing. Not always, not everywhere, but most often, and by a wide, wide margin.

Women we Buried, Women we Burned: A Memoir by Rachel Louise Snyder

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But when I look back over my life to date, I can think of occasions when I regret not having stood up to someone or something. I can think of none I regret that went the other way, not a single time I was sorry to have found my voice and used it.

It. Goes. So. Fast.: The Year of No Do-Overs by Mary Louise Kelly

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Why should things be easy when they can be difficult?

It. Goes. So. Fast.: The Year of No Do-Overs by Mary Louise Kelly

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Treasure this. Treasure the way their eyes light up when you walk into a room. Treasure even the mornings they cry for you, the ones when you have to unwind and tear their arms from around your neck as you leave. Never again, I would tell my younger self—never again will someone need and love you with the intensity that James and Alexander do, right now.

It. Goes. So. Fast.: The Year of No Do-Overs by Mary Louise Kelly

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I can't think of another relationship in one's life where you actively root for the other person to outgrow you. Where the whole goal is for them to surpass you, to separate. That's the fundamental tension of parent and child. You can't wait for them to stop being so needy every second, and then they stop needing you every second, and it feels like a stake to the heart.

It. Goes. So. Fast.: The Year of No Do-Overs by Mary Louise Kelly

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The older you get the more you realize time is not a line but a circle. Everything comes around again.

It. Goes. So. Fast.: The Year of No Do-Overs by Mary Louise Kelly

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Imagine if all men took women seriously. Education would change. The workforce would revolutionize. Marriage counselors would go out of business. Do you see my point?

Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

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“Sometimes I think," she said slowly, "that if a man were to spend a day being a woman in America, he wouldn't make it past noon.”

Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

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What was a gate anyway? A doorway, she thought. A portal. The possibility that you might walk through the door and reinvent yourself as something better than you had been before.

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

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"Let her know you're there. And if you can manage it, bring her a cookie, a book, a movie to watch. Friendship," Marx said, "is kind of like having a Tamagotchi."

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

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My heart is a thin thing, these days--shred of paper blown between the spaces in my ribs.

Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield

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I love going into the cinema when it's still light out and then coming out in the dark. Makes me think about the way a city is never the same. I mean, the way everything changes. Every night, every minute, it's over and things will never be the same again.

Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield

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Grief is selfish: we cry for ourselves without the person we have lost far more than we cry for the person--but more than that, we cry because it helps. The grief process is also the coping process and if the grief is frozen by ambiguity, by the constant possibility of reversal, then so is the ability to cope.

Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield

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