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In Moshfegh’s darkly comic and profound novel, a troubled young woman evading grief decides to renew her spirit by spending the year sleeping. “I knew in my heart,” she tells the reader, “that when I’d slept enough, I’d be O.K.”

— The New York Times, 100 Notable Books of 2018

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I want to be more charming because whenever I am the recipient of someone else’s charm, I have the distinct pleasure of feeling at peace with my whole human self, and I want to not only be the beneficiary of this kind of feeling, but also the genesis of it for others.

— Harling Ross, How Do Charming People Become Charming? An Investigation

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I guess you could argue that the real prize was all the literature we consumed along the way — and, according to an analysis of studies examining the effects of reading fiction on social behavior, we’re probably a little nicer for it, too.

— Katie Heaney, Reading Fiction Makes You a Little Nicer

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The game is jam-packed with millennial stereotypes. Not only is Pennybags standing in front of a vegan restaurant, but he's wearing blue Ray-Bans and earbuds, and carrying a coffee to-go cup.

— Christina Maxouris, Monopoly For Millennials Is Not About Real Estate Because 'You Can't Afford It Anyway'

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No one gives you power. You have to take it from them.

— Nancy Pelosi, Nancy Pelosi’s Last Battle

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As we imagine a future in which our sexual culture is as democratic as the internet once was, we won’t mistake all documentations of sex as porn and won’t hesitate to post a video of an amazing IRL blowjob the same way we would highlights from a workout.

— Tierney Finster, The Men Who Watch Porn That Reflects Their Actual Sex Lives - MEL Magazine

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Hallelujah, bread is back.

— Dayna Evans, Do You Even Bake, Bro?

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I used old movies like The Shining or Scream as a form of training, just in case I ever needed to keep real-life danger at bay. It wasn’t actually training, of course, but feeling such intense emotions from a film felt like fortification against very real fears.

— Anne T. Donahue, Why Horror Is the Most Comforting Genre of 2018

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If you're a straight man with a lot of female friends, you probably tolerate astrology.

— Hannah Ewens, Why Straight Men Hate Astrology So Much

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If there was one main negative takeaway from the raging fires of food tourist culture and the lists fanning the flames, it was that the people crowding the restaurant were one time customers.

— Kevin Alexander, I Found the Best Burger Place in America. And Then I Killed It.

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There are moments that the words don’t reach. There is suffering too terrible to name.

— Renée Elise Goldsberry, It's Quiet Uptown

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You can use the small tiger or lion cubs only for half a year, or one year, absolutely no longer. Because it is too dangerous for children.

— Pavla Rihova, Gruesome discovery of Czech tiger farm exposes illegal trade in heart of Europe

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We’re not star-crossed, but we can still wrap ourselves in the seams of a quilted universe that we didn’t stitch.

— Savannah Brown, loving like an existentialist

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Hi, I’m a slut. But what does that mean? I’m unclean, I’m less pure I sleep around, sure But isn’t that what you were begging for?

— Savannah Brown, hi, i'm a slut

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For a happy, healthy, genuine relationship, I feel like there has to be trust and loyalty.

— Carlie Hanson, On The Loop: Carlie Hanson // Local Wolves

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When I first learned that no one could ever love me more than me a world of happiness previously unseen was discovered.

— Savannah Brown, What Guys Look For In Girls

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But I don't care whether it's your gender, your looks, your weight, your skin, or where your love lies none of that matters because standards don't define you. You don't live to meet credentials established by a madman you're a goddamn treasure whether you wanna believe it or not
and maybe that's what everyone should start looking for.

— Savannah Brown, What Guys Look For In Girls

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Finding yourself is something you’ll be doing for the rest of your life, so make big changes and be unapologetic.

— Savannah Brown, CONVERSATIONS: SAVANNAH BROWN - Local Wolves

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For those enamored of Ferrante’s savage world, this expansion of the heart, along with a vision of the secret nerves that course through history, is a revelation. Many would argue that the books’ direct engagement of a reader’s empathy — a quality men have been shown to lack, at least in comparison to women — is exactly what good literature is supposed to do.

— Miles Klee, Why So Many Guys Are Obsessed With 'My Brilliant Friend' - MEL Magazine

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In filing their suit, they hope to not only compel Dartmouth to implement policies that would combat sexual misconduct, but also to shine a light on the discrimination against women and minorities that pervades academic sciences.

— Amanda Arnold, Surviving the ‘Predators’ Club’

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Some people wonder exactly how you stealth-sign books at airports.

— Neil Gaiman, Sometimes Authors Stealth-Sign Books At Airports

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By everyday makeup, I mean this is what I wear normally when I do put some on. It’s not a glammed up date night look.

— Emma Chapman, Emma's Everyday Aka Natural Makeup

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I take comfort in the fact that Carly Rae Jepsen is very publicly out here getting giddy over crushes and stuff.

— Nora Taylor, Carly Rae Jepsen Is My Favorite 32-Year-Old Teenager

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To him, it must sound positively enlightened: Who wouldn’t want to test their convictions in the fire of earnest critique?

— Miles Klee, Why We Can't Escape the 'Debate Me' Dudes

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If every mountain overlooked a parallel scene, if every flower bloomed in uninspired ways, the Earth would not steal us of our breath. Use this as a lesson. Your eyes, your hands, your marvelous smile – those are all your unique contribution to the matchless beauty of nature. You are a stunning rarity; you don’t need to be fixed.

I see two worlds colliding: the old and the new. I see evil and destruction from which we will never recover. I see life as we know it ceasing to exist in a desolate future stretching out endlessly before us.

I'd rather be bad than boring.

Come on. Let's see what else you have inside... your... head.

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