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“Don’t get any ideas,�� Vaselik said as Leah left the room. “She’s a widowed Jew and my cook, so forget whatever you’re thinking.�� “And you Ivan, what are you thinking?�� asked Mikhail. “Less risk than a superior’s wife, no?”
― Beverly Magid, Sown in Tears: A Historical Novel of Love and Struggle

“Now she collapsed in a heap next to her boys. Although she was desperate for sleep, worries about getting more food kept her awake.”
― Beverly Magid, Sown in Tears: A Historical Novel of Love and Struggle

“Hunger is a language I know. A script I've written a thousand times.”
― Nisha J. Tuli, Trial of the Sun Queen

“What a luxury, to tell one's story. To be read, remembered.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“Because people like stuff. New stuff, even newer stuff. Stuff to replace old stuff with and old stuff that is so old it becomes retro stuff and starts being used instead of new stuff. Let me tell you, it's fun stuff. Sometimes we have to get rid of stuff to make room for new stuff. And then we start to miss the old stuff so much that we have to build new stuff that pretends to be the old stuff. Like when we put TV screens on the treadmills at the gym and then play videos of trees on them so that we feel like we're running through the forest. Yes, I know what you're thinking. Why don't you just go running into the forest to begin with? and it's completely ok to wonder that. You don't know any better. But you see, we had to cut down the trees in the forest in order to build a highway so we could drive our cars to the gym. And yes, I can already see what you're thinking: Why did you have to cut down the trees? But hey, what did you want us to do? They were standing in the middle of the highway. It's complicated stuff to explain.”
― Fredrik Backman, Things My Son Needs to Know About the World

“Mary Katherine must never be punished. Must never be sent to bed without her dinner. Mary Katherine will never allow herself to do anything inviting punishment.”
― Shirley Jackson, WE HAVE ALWAYS LIVED IN THE CASTLE

“Cause everybody wants to be right in a world where there ain’t no right or wrong to be found. My side. He don’t listen to my side. Just like that chicken coop, everything’s got four sides: his side, her side, an outside, and an inside. All of it is the truth”
― Gloria Naylor, Mama Day

“I'm an open book, but I am still a hardcover.”
― Niedria Kenny, Order in the Courtroom: The Tale of a Texas Poker Player

“Mail call. Someone throws a box on his bed. Curling, feminine handwriting addressed to Bobby. Cinnamon and chocolate wafts from the paper. Bobby’s fingers trace the letters of his own name, trace the grease spots starting to shine through the brown wrapping paper. You’ll see, Adam had said. Someday. Bobby’s hands shred the paper and reach for a fistful of cookies, shoving them against his lips. Someday, Adam said. Someday.”
― Finnian Burnett, The Price of Cookies

“I think,�� Jainan said slowly, “that it’s very possible to spend all your energy doing the right thing but still miss something obvious. I think that doesn’t make your effort meaningless.”
― Everina Maxwell, Winter’s Orbit

“Death is senseless yet it makes way for the living,”
― Ellen Raskin, The Westing Game

“We may not know how the lines of our life are going to end, but at least we can predict what they'll sound like.”
― Frank Skinner, How to Enjoy Poetry

“That's the thing with good poets. They structure and decide and re-write and insert, but some of the magic comes from a place beyond intention.”
― Frank Skinner, How to Enjoy Poetry

“That's the thing with good poets. They structure and decide and re-write and insert, but some of the magic comes from the place beyond intention. It just falls from them like windfall fruit.”
― Frank Skinner, How to Enjoy Poetry

“That's the thing with good poets. They structure and decide and re-write and insert, but some of the magic comes from the place beyond intention.”
― Frank Skinner, How to Enjoy Poetry

“Kitty O’Kane dreamed of a kind husband and a just life; what she had was haddock water for supper and a dribble of her own blood, seen at close quarters, on the toe of her father’s scuffed boot.”
― Colin Falconer, The Unkillable Kitty O'Kane

“What a strange system runs between law and order.”
― J.D.Robb

“They understand that I come with baggage and embrace it.”
― Anahita Karthik, All I Have Left

“Young people take and take and take.

And when the people we've taken from all our lives get snatched away from us, we realise how much we truly depended on them. How much we shouldn't have.”
― Anahita Karthik, All I Have Left

“I can't remember the last time I had fun with Sudhir the way brothers and sisters do.”
― Anahita Karthik, All I Have Left

“self-pity is the poison
we feed ourselves
when we are daunted by the work it takes
to grow”
― L.E. Bowman, The Evolution of a Girl

“Sometimes silence has more syllables than any word.”
― Manu J, The Artist

“Once upon a time, he’d have leaned in for a kiss, and she’d have counted it a victory to have distracted him for even a moment.”
― Roseanna M. White, A Noble Scheme

“Silence! I am about to unburden myself of many memorable remarks reserved for the darkness of such earths and the brilliance of such skies.”
― Scott F. Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“She asks the moon, who loves her, but the moon does not know.”
― Vajra Chandrasekera, Rakesfall

“But opportunity is a circumstance, not an explanation”
― Lucy Foulkes, Coming of Age: How Adolescence Shapes Us

“He looked at the human ant hill of growingly ordered activity outside and felt a shrinking helplessness. This was the true Juggernaut, this marshalling of men and skills in stubborn determination and equally stubborn disregard of human life. This was Juggernaut, the Crushing, Irresistible Force, not the human being with the breathy voice on the telephone.”
― Al Hine (Author)

“The cocktail of grief and humiliation and longing battered my heart with such violence I was sure I could feel the muscle tear.”
― Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

“While we were in Midland, Mom painted dozens of variations and studies of the Joshua tree...I wanted to dig it up and replant it neat our house...Mom frowned at me. "You'd be destroying what makes it special," she said. "It's the Joshua tree's struggle that gives it its beauty.”
― Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle

“I won't close my eyes. The comment about Rue has filled me with fury, enough fury, I think, to die with some dignity. As my last act of defiance, I will stare her down for as long as I can see, which will probably not be an extended period of time, but I will stare her down, I will not cry out, I will die, in my own small way, undefeated.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games