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“Maybe angels aren't always meant to stop bad things.'
'So what good are they?'
'To be with us when bad things happen.'
Joseph looked at him.
'Then where the hell were they?' he said.”
― Gary D. Schmidt, Orbiting Jupiter

“Am I human or humanoid? Have I been dreamt into being?”
― Olga Ravn, The Employees: A workplace novel of the 22nd century

“Blink, and the years fall away like leaves.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“As children we see happiness as a thing. A toy train sticking out of a basket or the plastic film around a slice of cake. or a photograph of a scene in which we are at the centre, all eyes on us.

As adults it gets more complicated. Happiness is success, work, a man or a woman. All vague, laborious things. Whether it's a word we use to describe our lives or not, it is mostly just that, a word.

Childhood taught us something different about happiness, Yui thought, that all you needed to do was reach out your hand in the right direction and you could grasp it.”
― Laura Imai Messina, The Phone Box at the Edge of the World