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"Stupid dreams. Even the good ones are bad, because they remind you how poorly reality measures up."

—Neal Shusterman, Unwind

"It’s funny how you can let yourself forget for seconds, how even in the heat of the horrible you can have moments when you fool yourself into thinking it might all be okay."

—Harlan Coben, Shelter

"You can do really awful things when you are bored, things that are bound to make you miserable. In fact, you do them in order to become miserable, so you won’t have to be bored anymore."

—Sam Savage, Firmin: Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife

"Having more does not keep you from wanting more. And if you always want more―to be richer, more beautiful, more well known―you are missing the bigger picture, and I can tell you from experience, happiness will never come."

—Mitch Albom, Have a Little Faith

"You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day. You have to keep remembering all the bad things."

—M.L. Stedman, The Light Between Oceans

"I loved being in my own head so much, it was getting harder and harder being with other people."

—Marian Keyes, Anybody Out There?

"I still felt sad, and a little incomplete. I suppose with so many things suddenly getting better, the things that were still missing hurt even worse."

—Rick Riordan, The Red Pyramid

"If I’d learned nothing else from my life thus far, it was that you don’t always end up where you think you’re going."

—Margaret Peterson Haddix, Just Ella