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“Don¡¯t be afraid to love someone. When you fall in love, I want you to fall in love all the way. Even if it ends in heartache, please don¡¯t live a lonely life without love. I¡¯ve been so worried that because of what happened you¡¯ll give up on falling in love. Love is wonderful. I don¡¯t want you to forget that. Those memories of people you love, they never disappear. They go on warming your heart as long as you live. When you get old like me, you¡¯ll understand.”
― Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
― Days at the Morisaki Bookshop

“Sisters never stand a chance to be friends. We're pitted against each other from the moment that we are born. A daughter is a treasure. Two is a tax.”
― Yolk
― Yolk

“I kill them because they're beautiful, and it's the only way I can keep them.”
― These Violent Delights
― These Violent Delights

“This is the problem with knowledge: its inexhaustible craving. The madness inherent in knowing there is only more to know. It¡¯s a problem of mortality, of seeing the invariable end from the immovable beginning, of determining that the more you try to fix it, the more beginnings there are to discover, the more ways to reach the same unavoidable end.”
― The Atlas Complex
― The Atlas Complex

“But it is not the lives we regret not living that are the real problem. It is the regret itself. It¡¯s the regret that makes us shrivel and wither and feel like our own and other people¡¯s worst enemy.
We can¡¯t tell if any of those other versions would have been better or worse. Those lives are happening, it is true, but you are happening as well, and that is the happening we have to focus on.
Of course, we can¡¯t visit every place or meet every person or do every job, yet most of what we¡¯d feel in any life is still available. We don¡¯t have to play every game to know what winning feels like. We don¡¯t have to hear every piece of music in the world to understand music. We don¡¯t have to have tried every variety of grape from every vineyard to know the pleasure of wine. Love and laughter and fear and pain are universal currencies.
We just have to close our eyes and savor the taste of the drink in front of us and listen to the song as it plays. We are as completely and utterly alive as we are in any other life and have access to the same emotional spectrum.”
― The Midnight Library
We can¡¯t tell if any of those other versions would have been better or worse. Those lives are happening, it is true, but you are happening as well, and that is the happening we have to focus on.
Of course, we can¡¯t visit every place or meet every person or do every job, yet most of what we¡¯d feel in any life is still available. We don¡¯t have to play every game to know what winning feels like. We don¡¯t have to hear every piece of music in the world to understand music. We don¡¯t have to have tried every variety of grape from every vineyard to know the pleasure of wine. Love and laughter and fear and pain are universal currencies.
We just have to close our eyes and savor the taste of the drink in front of us and listen to the song as it plays. We are as completely and utterly alive as we are in any other life and have access to the same emotional spectrum.”
― The Midnight Library

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