I have a habit of when reading books to stop and dictated a quote that made me feel some sort of way into my notes app. I don’t often go back to read them but tonight I decided to highlight some of the ones from the 5⭐️ books I have read in the last 12 months.

Well. I cheated with one. It was a 3.5⭐️ but it was still quotable.

What are your favorite books? Quotes?

“When you get old, gravity pulls the corners of your mouth down, the road to a smile grows longer.”

~ My Friends by Fredrick Backman
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“Being a parent is so strange, all our children's pain belongs to us, but so does their joy.”

~ My Friends by Fredrick Backman
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“The older I get, the more convinced I am that every hurt the world has ever known is somehow the fault of every person who ever lived. Maybe not directly and never entirely, but somehow, I fear, we own all of the world's hurts together.”

~ Theo of Golden by Allen Levi
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“The problem with a sunset is that it won't stay still. In a single minute it can change itself entirely.”

~ Theo of Golden by Allen Levi
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“Gather as much knowledge as you can, because information is power. And choosing how to use it is freedom. The more you know, the freer you will be.”

~ Lula Dean’s Little Library of Banned Books by Kirsten Miller
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“Of all that were asked to give others in this life, the most difficult to offer may be forgiveness.”

~ This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger
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“Love comes in so many forms, and pain is no different.”

~ This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger
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“Open yourself to every possibility, for there is nothing your heart can imagine that is not so.”

~ This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger
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“We breathe love in and we breathe love out. It’s the essence of our existence, the very air of our souls.”

~ This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger
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“The only way to learn is to live.”

~ The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
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“Never underestimate the big importance of small things.”


~ The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
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“‘You’re overthinking it.’

I have anxiety. I have no other way of thinking available.”

~ The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
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“Remember: words, especially when written, are immortal.”

~ The Correspondent by Virginia Evans
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“How cruel life is only this long. Now that I see clearly, I’d like more time.”

~ The Correspondent by Virginia Evans
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“Stop looking outward... Look inward. That is where you will find the meaning of your life.”

~ Passage to Inis Mór: Could a Legend Save a Life? by Brian O’Raleigh
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“The journey of a lifetime is within, you are your own destination.”

~ Passage to Inis Mór: Could a Legend Save a Life? by Brian O’Raleigh
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“Somewhere, out in the world, are the people who touched us, or loved us, or ran from us. In that way we will live on.”

~ One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot by Marianne Cronin
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“I will be forever changed by the people I have met and their bravery, their courage and their light.”

~ One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot by Marianne Cronin
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“That a person you love is never truly gone—they’re always there, whether it’s in a memory … or a dream.”

~ Midnight at the Blackbird Café by Heather Webber
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“You see, the bonds of love are only strengthened when someone leaves this earth, not diminished.”

~ Midnight at the Blackbird Café by Heather Webber
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“He often wondered how his body still held together when his soul had broken into a million pieces.”

~ The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife by Anna Johnston
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“You'll never regret being kind even when people aren't kind to you.”

~ The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife by Anna Johnston
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“Love is really just two people who can’t keep away from each other.”

~ Eddie Winston is Looking for Love by Marianne Cronin
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“…anger is the jacket that fear wears to keep from shaking.”

~ Eddie Winston is Looking for Love by Marianne Cronin
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“Wider ranges of normal make the world a better place for everyone.”

~ This is How It Always Is Laurie Frankel
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“I wish for my child, for all our children, a world where they can be who they are and become their most loved, blessed, appreciated selves.”

~ This is How It Always Is Laurie Frankel
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“There are few children more treasured than ill-behaved ones who belong to someone else.”

~ This is How It Always Is Laurie Frankel
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I am writing for the 19th annual Slice of Life challenge presented by Two Writing Teachers.