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“It makes you wonder. All the brilliant things we might have done with our lives if only we suspected we knew how.”
― Ann Patchett, Bel Canto

“Life is a bucket of shit with a barbed wire handle.”
― Jim Thompson

“There are things that have to be forgotten if you want to go on living.”
― Jim Thompson, The Killer Inside Me

“A weed is a plant out of place.”
― Jim Thompson, The Killer Inside Me

“...be careful when choosing what you're proud of--because the world has every intention of using it against you.”
― Amor Towles, Rules of Civility

“Right from the first, I could see a calmness in you - that sort of inner tranquility that they write about in books, but that almost no one seems to possess. I was wondering to myself: How does she do that? And I figured it could only come from having no regrets - from having made choices with .... such poise and purpose.”
― Amor Towles, Rules of Civility

“It is a lovely oddity of human nature that a person is more inclined to interrupt two people in conversation than one person alone with a book.”
― Amor Towles, Rules of Civility

“You always get more respect when you don't have a happy ending.”
― Julia Quinn