“There is never a perfect answer in this messy, emotional world.” — Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

There are so many great books that were released in 2016, and so many are filled with incredible quotes.

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“Grief was not a line, carrying you infinitely further from loss. You never knew when you would be sling-shot backward into its grip.” ― Brit Bennett, The Mothers

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“Harry, there is never a perfect answer in this messy, emotional world. Perfection is beyond the reach of humankind, beyond the reach of magic. In every shining moment of happiness is that drop of poison: the knowledge that pain will come again. Be honest to those you love, show your pain. To suffer is as human as to breathe.” — John Tiffany & Jack Thorne Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

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"Weakness is treating someone as though they belong to you. Strength is knowing that everyone belongs to themselves.” — Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing

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EVERYTHING is connected

You probably binged the third season of Black Mirror like everyone else, which means you missed a lot of the little details. Warning! This post contains...

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In fact, that same case that Victoria was convicted and tortured for was the reason Blue, from the episode "Hated in the Nation," left her job.

Ian Rannoch was Victoria's boyfriend, and helped commit the crimes that got her sentenced to appear on White Bear.

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The same Victoria appears as one of the possible victims of the #DeathTo trending topic in the same episode.

Although, looking back, a quick death from robo-bees may have been better than being harassed by men in masks for the rest of your (short) life.

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These are stories of unexplainable happenings.

The following stories are from multiple AskReddit threads found here, here, and here.

The wife who was seen in two different spots.

One evening, a man and his wife returned home from dinner. When he opened the door, he saw his wife sitting at the computer doing work, which is a normal sight when he gets off of work, except for the fact that SHE WAS ENTERING THE HOUSE WITH HIM. When they went to bed, he told her that he’d unexplainably seen her sitting at the computer earlier, and she got very serious, then told him that when he opened the door, she saw herself sitting at the computer too. Creepy.

Read the full story here.

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The creepy driver and his unconscious passengers.

An off-duty EMT was driving home through a storm when he spotted a Mercedes parked past a barricade with its hazard lights on. He stopped and walked over to it, shining his light in the backseat, where he saw a man slumped over, as if he were sleeping. Initially, he thought it might be a car full of drunks, but in the driver’s seat was a man sitting upright, staring straight ahead. He didn’t blink, move, or respond to taps on the window, and the other passenger was slumped forward on the dashboard. Creeped out, he stepped away to call the sheriff's station. Dispatch asked him for a license plate number, but when he went to check, a large truck was coming down the road, so he waited for it to pass. When it did, the car was suddenly gone. There were trees in one direction and barricades in the other, leaving the man wondering how in the world this car and its mysterious occupants could have simply vanished.

Read the full story here.

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The couple who dreamed something very specific.

This is a simple story. A guy has a girlfriend of two years named Susan. One night he has a dream that he cheated on Susan with his ex-girlfriend. In the dream, while having sex with his ex, he looked over and standing outside of the window is his mortified girlfriend Susan, crying. He forgot about the dream, but then a few days later when he was hanging out with Susan, she told him that she had had a weird dream a few days earlier. She then described the exact same dream he'd had, but from her point of view, looking through the window.

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You can’t hide what’s inside!

♫All I want for Christmas… is for someone to pay off my student loans.♫

Have you ever just received a gift that you weren't wild about?

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And then you had to play up on how much you liked it.

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Maybe all you actually wanted for Christmas was for someone to pay for your Netflix or Spotify account.

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An exclusive look at the cover of the paperback edition of Carry On, which will hit shelves May 2017.

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Carry On — The Rise and Fall of Simon Snow is a ghost story, a love story and a mystery. It has just as much kissing and talking as you'd expect from a Rainbow Rowell story — but far, far more monsters.

Simon Snow is the worst Chosen One who's ever been chosen.

That's what his roommate, Baz, says. And Baz might be evil and a vampire and a complete git, but he's probably right.

Half the time, Simon can't even make his wand work, and the other half, he starts something on fire. His mentor's avoiding him, his girlfriend broke up with him, and there's a magic-eating monster running around, wearing Simon's face. Baz would be having a field day with all this, if he were here — it's their last year at the Watford School of Magicks, and Simon's infuriating nemesis didn't even bother to show up.

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And now here's what you've been waiting for (drumroll, please)...

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And calling out their moms. “My mom does shit like this.”

This is 21-year-old Koran Hackman and his lil' nephew, Chance. Chance is 3, and a pretty bright kid, but a recent Facebook post from Hackman's mom had Hackman raising an eyebrow.

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Last Thursday, Hackman told BuzzFeed News he noticed his mom had shared a very enlightened quote from Chance, who she is currently raising. The 3-year-old had apparently said, "Through [God], all things are possible."

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Do you deliver presents, or steal them?

Christmas is a wonderful, joyous, and glorious time of the year. Unless you hate it.

There are 14 questions altogether, you just need to reply TRUTHFULLY. More questions will appear as you go along.

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HER FAAAACE. [Updated]

On Monday morning, the 2017 Golden Globe nominations were announced. Among the nominees for Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series — Comedy or Musical was one Issa Rae, the mastermind behind Insecure.

Her fellow nominees were Rachel Bloom (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend), Gina Rodriguez (Jane the Virgin), Tracee Ellis Ross (Black-ish), Sarah Jessica Parker (Divorce), and Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Veep).

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It's Rae's first Globes nomination ever, and she celebrated in style — at least, that's what it looks like according to an Instagram post by her co-star Yvonne Orji, who plays Molly on Insecure. The post shows Orji and Rae FaceTiming after the nominations were announced.

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"That time @issarae got nominated for a @goldenglobes and I FaceTimed her at the but-crack [sic] of dawn and went through all the emotions of pure excitement in our matching headscarves!" Orji wrote in her Instagram caption.

She also killed the hashtag game: "#BecauseThatsWhatFriendsAreFor! #SeeWhatYouCanDoWithAniPhoneIssa?! #FirstTimeFaceTiming #TheresNoGoingBack #HerFlawlessSkinAngersMe 😡
#SheReallyDidWakeUpLikeThis #ThatsThatGoldenGlobesGlow 💯👌🏽 #insecureHBO #DasMyBoo!"

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Check those headscarves, check those smiles.

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No, you can’t have both!

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A Turkish student cries during a protest to show solidarity with trapped citizens of Aleppo, Syria, in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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Iraqi soldiers of the 17th Division carry a wounded comrade shortly after a mortar fell in an area where the troops were gathering to advance towards the Islamic State group held village of Ganus, Iraq.

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A member of forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad attempts to erect the Syrian national flag inside the Umayyad mosque, in the government-controlled area of Aleppo, Syria.

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A riot police officer bearing a white flower on his bulletproof vest takes part in a public servants' protest against austerity measures in front of the Rio de Janeiro state assembly in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. On Monday, Rio's lawmakers began voting the measures promoted by the governor Luiz Fernando Pezao pushing budget cuts.

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Demonstrators clash with military police during a protest against the approval of the measure to cap government spending over the next 20 years, in Brasilia, Brazil. Congress in Brazil approved the spending cap measure that was opposed by many sectors, but justified as way to revive a struggling economy.

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A man lights his cigarette with the flames of a bus burned by anti-government demonstrators during a protest against the constitutional amendment PEC 55, which limits public spending, in front of Brazil's National Congress in Brasilia, Brazil.

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A nun cries as she stands at the scene inside Cairo's Coptic cathedral, following a bombing, in Egypt.

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Police arrive at the site of an explosion in central Istanbul, Turkey.

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A man wipes a policeman's tears as he stands guard next to the coffins of martyred policemen Osman Borkluoglu and Yasin Ike, in Kayseri, Turkey. At least 38 people, including 7 civilians, were killed and 155 people were injured in two separate bomb attacks in the Besiktas district of Istanbul.

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Marines stand guard at the casket of the John Glenn as he lies in repose, in Columbus, Ohio. Glenn's home state and the nation began saying goodbye to the famed astronaut as he lies in state at Ohio's capitol building. Glenn, 95, the first American to orbit Earth, died last week.

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President Barack Obama hugs Kate Grubb, and Vice President Joe Biden hugs her husband David Grubb, before the president signed the 21st Century Cures Act in the South Court Auditorium of the White House complex in Washington. The Grubb family, from Charleston, West Virginia, lost their daughter Jessie Grubb in the spring of 2016 after a long battle with substance abuse. Grubb's story gained recognition after Obama visited Charleston in Oct. 2015, focusing on the drug epidemic.

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A combination of two images shows the Eiffel Tower with its lights on and off in Paris, France. The Eiffel Tower's lights were extinguished this evening in solidarity with those caught up in ongoing violence in the Syrian city of Aleppo.

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Juan Pedro, who has microcephaly and turned 1 year old on Dec. 4, is held by his godmother Sinthia in Recife, Brazil. As many of the babies with microcephaly, believed to be linked to the Zika virus, turn 1 year old in Recife, doctors and mothers are adapting and learning treatments to assist and calm the children. Many of the children are suffering a plethora of difficulties including vision and hearing problems with doctors now labeling the overall condition as "congenital Zika syndrome." Authorities have recorded thousands of cases in Brazil in which the mosquito-borne Zika virus may have led to microcephaly in infants. Microcephaly results in an abnormally small head in newborns and is associated with various disorders.

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Pilgrims arrange a crown on a Virgin of Guadalupe statue as they make their way towards the Basilica of Guadalupe in Mexico City. Hundreds of thousands of people from all over the country converge on Mexico's holy Roman Catholic site, many bringing with them images or statues of Mexico's patron saint to be blessed, marking the Virgin's Dec. 12 feast day.

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Chinese people attend the state memorial ceremony for the Nanjing Massacre at Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall in Nanjing, China. The state ceremony is to mourn the Nanjing Massacre victims whose lives were taken by Japanese invaders.

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A herd of reindeers is seen inside an enclosure as herders select and sort them in the settlement of Krasnoye, Russia.

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Children dressed as Santa Claus participate in a parade held to collect food for the needy in Lisbon, Portugal.

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Two women kiss during the Gay Pride Parade at Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. People took part in Rio de Janeiro's 21st Gay Pride Parade to fight for more justice and an inclusive society which recognizes equal rights for the gay community.

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Actor Kirk Douglas, center, gets a kiss from his son Michael Douglas, left, and Michael's wife Catherine Zeta-Jones during his 100th birthday party at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Beverly Hills, California.

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A woman casts her vote in Sintesti, Romania. Romanians vote in a parliamentary election, a year after a massive anti-corruption drive forced the last Socialist prime minister from power in a country of about 19 million, one of the poorest in the European Union.

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Violet Webster, who has a hole in the heart and is aged 2, helps Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, decorate the Clarence House Christmas Tree at Clarence House in London, England. The Duchess of Cornwall invited children from the charity and children supported by Roald Dahl's Marvellous Children's Charity to decorate the Christmas tree and join Her Royal Highness for lunch.

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Artists carve the 103-meter-long snow sculpture called, "Long Song," for the 29th Harbin International Snow Sculpture Art Expo in Harbin, China.

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The BuzzFeed podcast See Something Say Something talks about the pop icon and why it matters so much that he’s Muslim and Pakistani.

This week on BuzzFeed podcast See Something Say Something, I bring on BuzzFeed News editor Sara Yasin to talk about Muslim sex symbol and pop icon, Zayn Malik.

To celebrate the episode, let's count down the best Zayn moments in history, starting with that time he gave us this LOOK.

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That time Zayn and Gigi Hadid, brown power couple, smoldered in the Pillow Talk video. 🇵🇸🇵🇰

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“It just walked over to our car and had its way.”

Okay, remember how we told you Albertans were warned about car-licking moose?

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We weren't kidding.

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CJ Malan and his wife Theresa had headed out to Peter Lougheed Provincial Park, just south of their home in Banff National Park.

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They'd heard reports about moose treating salty cars like lollipops, but they didn't think they'd actually get to witness it firsthand.

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Surprise!

On Dec. 15, cast members from Hidden Figures attended a special screening of the film at the White House.

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The screening was followed by a discussion with Michelle Obama.

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Taraji P. Henson who plays Katherine Johnson, the lead character in the film, was there.

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As was Janelle Monae, who plays Mary Jackson.

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She’s baaack.

The first trailer for Amy Schumer's new movie, Snatched, is here — and it's very Schumer-esque.

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Snatched was written by Schumer, her sister and frequent collaborator Kim Caramele, and Katie Dippold, who was also behind the script for Ghostbusters and The Heat. Schumer stars as Emily, a recently-heartbroken young woman whose boyfriend bails on their trip to South America to — of course — focus on his band.

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So, Emily decides to take her mom (aka the timeless beacon of perfection Goldie Hawn) on the trip instead, and hijinks immediately ensue.

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Funny hijinks, like pool-wear disagreements...

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Look, it’s a letter from our friend, Steve!

We all remember Steve and his magical thinking couch from Blue's Clues, right?

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Steve Burns starred on the show for five seasons before abruptly leaving with little explanation as to why.

A lot of theories swirled around about what happened to Burns, like one that he died in a car accident, for example!

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But in an interview with Huffington Post, Burns opened up about why he actually left the show.

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"I left the show because it was just simply time to go," he said. "I was pretty much playing a boyish, older brother-ish kind of character on the show. I was getting older; I was losing my hair."

"A lot of the original gangsters on the show, like the people who created it, were all moving on to other careers," Burns continued. "I just had a gut feeling like it was time to go."

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I take them. You take them. Everyone takes them.

Just a few years ago, selfies were mocked as a navel-gazing art form embraced solely by millennial narcissists. But today, selfies are the de rigueur social media medium, offering us a personal glimpse into the political arena, the human side of celebrity, and the world at large.

Below, the funniest, controversial, and most important selfies of 2016.

This shot of the crowd trying to get a photo with Hillary Clinton at a youth rally in Orlando in September.

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The "Leo finally got his Oscar" selfie.

Cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki, actor Leonardo DiCaprio and director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, all winners for 'The Revenant,' take a selfie onstage during the 88th Annual Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre on February 28, 2016 in Hollywood, California.

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The viral white guys selfie.

And they didn't intentionally pose in that perfect line-up, believe it or not.

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The new kitties are named Noel, Joy, Christmas, and Faith.

"If we didn't take her home she would have died. She was all bones," Lopez told BuzzFeed News.

About three months later, Tink spent her first Christmas with the family. Now, Tink is all grown up and a new mom.

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ALL OF THE LIGHTS.

We all know the Kardashians go BIG for Christmas. I mean, just LOOK at Kris Jenner's tree from 2015 and tell me the lie.

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Or Kylie's tree from this year, for that matter.

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Well, thanks to Jonathan Cheban's snapchats, we now know what Kim and Kanye's tree looks like this year.

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Harpreet is ♫ point five seconds from wildin’. ♫

After Dhadli posted the reaction online, over 14,000 people shared it. The comments were flooded with other students laughing, mostly about how real and relatable it was to them.

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