• “Everyone, at some point in their lives, wakes up in the middle of the night with the feeling that they are all alone in the world, and that nobody loves them now and that nobody will ever love them, and that they will never have a decent night's sleep again and will spend their lives wandering blearily around a loveless landscape, hoping desperately that their circumstances will improve, but suspecting, in their heart of hearts, that they will remain unloved forever. The best thing to do in these circumstances is to wake somebody else up, so that they can feel this way, too.”
  • Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid, Lemony Snicket
• “Life is a series of pulls back and forth... A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. Most of us live somewhere in the middle. A wrestling match...Which side win? Love wins. Love always wins.”
  • Tuesdays With Morrie, Mitch Albom
• “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
  • Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami
• “That which we manifest is before us; we are the creators of our own destiny. Be it through intention or ignorance, our successes and our failures have been brought on by none other than ourselves.”
  • The Art of Racing in the Rain, Garth Stein

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