This batch of quotes is from books I read between April and August 2016. The tenth quote was hard to choose because nearly every sentence in The Gap of Time was so knockout beautiful.

1.  “Mostly I’m just trying to get it right, whatever that means.” –The Truth About Forever, Sarah Dessen
2.  But, of course, the hardest shells hid the most fragile selves. –The Expatriates, Janice Y.K. Lee
3.  He made a whole city full of windows. -Harold and the Purple Crayon, Crockett Johnson
4.  “You can’t compare one person’s coping capacity to another, hon.” –The Raven King, Maggie Stiefvater
5.  He considered how memories hold our lives in place but weigh nothing and cannot be seen or touched. –Father’s Day, Simon Van Booy
6.  “And fiction gives us empathy: it puts us inside the minds of other people, gives us the gift of seeing the world through their eyes. Fiction is a lie that tells us true things, over and over.” –The View From the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction, Neil Gaiman
7.  There are pockets of time, she thinks, where every sense rings like a bell, where the world brims with fleeting grace. –The Last Painting of Sara De Vos, Dominic Smith
8.  Unlike the world of technology, where rapid innovation produces improvements, innovation in fashion just produces arbitrary stylistic changes. –Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion, Elizabeth Cline
9.  It’s impossible, what I’m trying to do. To say good-bye without telling them I’m leaving. –Imagine Me Gone, Adam Haslett
10.  Forgiveness is a word like tiger – there’s footage of it and verifiably it exists but few of us have seen it close and wild or known it for what it is. –The Gap of Time, Jeanette Winterson