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"You can't hate someone for their weakness, because that's just another kind of weakness."

Betty Tiffany McDaniel

"There are some things that are too big to be spoken, and some things that are so small they hardly make a sound. But it's the things that exist in between that can't be contained."

Time Is A Mother Ocean Vuong

"Time is a mother who slaughters what she loves, and yet who sustains us."

Milk Fed Melissa Broder

“Oh, my daughter,” I said. “You will forget that I am here. This is the way of human beings, to forget. But you found your way back to me once and so can find your way back again, because I am always here. The world will hurt you again and again. You will hurt yourself again and again. And when it does, and when you do, you will remember me again and again. You will drop to your knees. You will hold yourself. You will be your own daughter again.”

Tinder Translator: An A–Z of Modern Misogyny

Aileen Barratt

Tender is the Flesh Agustina Bazterrica

Where We Go From Here Lucas Rocha

How High We Go in the Dark Sequoia Nagamatsu

"But there was something about the night that made me feel alive, as if the absence of light made every other sense heightened, made me see things I couldn't see during the day."

A Certain Hunger Chelsea G. Summers

“We talk about love like it's an involuntary act. We fall into love, like a hole, a puddle, an elevator shaft. We never step mindfully into love. Love we seem to think, requires a loss of control; love necessitates that vertiginous giving over to gravity; love wants you to have no choice.”

Wrong Place, Wrong Time Gillian McAllister

Normal People Sally Rooney

"I think I’m a weird kind of selfish. You know, like, I’ll spend my whole day doing things for other people, and then wonder why they don’t spend their whole day doing things for me."

Disorientation Elaine Hsieh Chou

How to Ruin Everything: Essays George Watsky

When We Were Birds Ayanna Lloyd Banwo

No Exit Taylor Adams

“The easiest lies to tell are the true ones.”

The Push Ashley Audrain

The Girl Who Fell From The Sky Heidi W. Durrow

"Maybe if you're lucky, the blue sky will choose you forever." - Heidi W. Durrow, The Girl Who Fell From The Sky.

Sign Here Claudia Lux

"I realized then that our lives are made up of so many people and so many moments. We're not just living for ourselves, we're living for each other." - Claudia Lux, Sign Here

All the Ugly and Wonderful Things Bryn Greenwood

Leave The World Behind Rumaan Alam

The Humans: A Novel Matt Haig

“Advice for a human.

81. You can't find happiness looking for the meaning of life. Meaning is only the third most important thing. It comes after loving and being.

82. If you think something is ugly, look harder. Ugliness is just a failure of seeing.”

Local Woman Missing Mary Kubica

When We Lost Our Heads Heather O'Neill

“Her heart leaped like a frog out of a child's first.”

How it Feels To Float Helena Fox

"I think that maybe that's what growing up is. You realize that you're not the center of the universe. You learn to balance the joys and sorrows, the good and the bad. You learn that everything is connected, and that you're not alone."

Math Girls Hiroshi Yuki

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Conversations With Friends Sally Rooney

"I don't know how to be alone in a world that doesn't want me to be."

The Sanatorium Sarah Pearse

I Have Never Known Men Jaqueline Harpman

“Perhaps you never have time when you are alone? You only acquire it by watching it go by in others".

Very Cold People Sarah Manguson

“My life felt unreal and I felt half-invested. I felt indistinct, like someone else's dream.”

Dark Matter Blake Crouch

The Perks of Being a Wallflower Stephen Chbosky

“I would die for you. But I won't live for you.”

Midnight Library Matt Haig

“We only need to be one person.
We only need to feel one existence.
We don't have to do everything in order to be everything, because we are already infinite. While we are alive we always contain a future of multifarious possibility.”

You'd Be Home Now Kathleen Glasgow

“Now, as then, I don’t know if I fully understand what happens in the novel, but I loved it anyway. Isn’t that strange? To love something you can’t fully grasp?”

In Other Rooms, Other Wonders
Daniyal Mueenuddin

Tiny Beautiful Things Cheryl Strayed

“Nobody will protect you from your suffering. You can’t cry it away or eat it away or starve it away or walk it away or punch it away or even therapy it away. It’s just there, and you have to survive it. You have to endure it. You have to live through it and love it and move on and be better for it and run as far as you can in the direction of your best and happiest dreams across the bridge that was built by your own desire to heal.” - Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things.

UNTAMED Glennon Doyle

Girl In Pieces Kathleen Glasgow

“Go be absolutely, positively, fucking angelic.”

The Last Thing He Told Me Laura Dave

“This is the thing about good and evil. They aren’t so far apart - and they often start from the same valiant place of wanting something to be different.”

My Heart And Other Black Holes Jasmine Warga

“You're like a grey sky. You're beautiful even though you don't want to be.”

If He Had Been with Me Laura Nowlin

The Island of Missing Trees Elif Shafak

“Some day this pain will be useful to you.”

Such A Pretty Girl Greenwood T

Pop Song: Adventures in Art and Intimacy Larissa Pham

With Teeth Kristen Arnett

“Though I planned out everything, my life was somehow made up of an endless series of unwanted surprises.”

Shit Cassandra Saw: Stories Gwen E. Kirby

“I regret that it took me this long to learn to use my body for its own sake.”

Don't Say We Didn't Warn You Ariel Delgado Dixon