"If you can't change your fate, change your attitude."
— Amy Tan

"Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand."
— Dan Brown (Angels & Demons)

"Everyone loves a conspiracy."
— Dan Brown (The Da Vinci Code)

"Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta."
— Vladimir Nabokov (Lolita)

"So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall."
— Roald Dahl

"Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It's made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!"
— Roald Dahl

"Don’t concern yourself with being right in others’ eyes. And don’t secretly hope that their lives will fall apart so that your opinion will be vindicated. Instead, concentrate on obeying God in your own life and, when possible, helping others to obey Him as well. You don’t have to prove others wrong to continue on the course you know God has shown you."
— Joshua Harris (I Kissed Dating Goodbye)

"To force a female to do things in male fashion is not equal opportunity, it is distorted idealism."
— Gregory Hartley (I Can Read You Like a Book: How to Spot the Messages and Emotions People Are Really Sending With Their Body Language)

"Sin is the Monster we love to deny. It is crouching at the door and it wants you, but you must overcome it."
— Frank E. Peretti

"You want proof there's a God? Look outside, watch a sunset."
— Frank E. Peretti

"And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time."
— Libba Bray (The Sweet Far Thing)

"People have a habit of inventing fictions they will believe wholeheartedly in order to ignore the truth they cannot accept."
— Libba Bray (The Sweet Far Thing)

"In each of us lie good and bad, light and dark, art and pain, choice and regret, cruelty and sacrifice. We’re each of us our own chiaroscuro, our own bit of illusion fighting to emerge into something solid, something real. We’ve got to forgive ourselves that. I must remember to forgive myself. Because there is a lot of grey to work with. No one can live in the light all the time."
— Libba Bray

"You can never really know someone completely. That’s why it’s the most terrifying thing in the world, really—taking someone on faith, hoping they’ll take you on faith too. It’s such a precarious balance, It’s a wonder we do it at all. And yet..

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— Libba Bray

"Power changes everything till it is difficult to say who are the heroes and who the villians."
— Libba Bray (The Sweet Far Thing)

"But we can't go back. We can only go forward."
— Libba Bray

"To those who will see, the world waits."
— Libba Bray

"It is funny how you do not miss affection until it is given, but once it is, it can never be enough; you would drown in it if possible."
— Libba Bray (The Sweet Far Thing)

"Education must be a lifelong pursuit. The person who doesn't read is not better off than the person who can't."
— Sean Covey (The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective Teens)

"“Prayer may just be the most powerful tool mankind has.”
~Blink
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— Ted Dekker

"Turn to the light. Don't fear the shadow it creates."
— Ted Dekker

"’...Death is the one thing that happens to every person. So what if our passing is a little strenuous? What awaits will be no less delightful.’"
— Ted Dekker (Obsessed)

"Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man."
— Homer (The Odyssey)

"How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!"
— Homer

"Ah how shameless – the way these mortals blame the gods. From us alone they say come all their miseries yes but they themselves with their own reckless ways compound their pains beyond their proper share."
— Homer (The Odyssey)

"For a friend with an understanding heart is worth no less than a brother"
— Homer (The Odyssey)

"There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep."
— Homer

"Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another."
— Homer (The Iliad, The Odyssey and the Lesser Homerica)

"Think not to match yourself against the gods, for men that walk the earth cannot hold their own with the immortals."
— Homer (Iliad)

"Here, therefore, huge and mighty warrior though you be, here shall you die."
— Homer (Iliad)

"If you serve too many masters, you'll soon suffer."
— Homer

"Even a fool learns something once it hits him."
— Homer (Iliad)

"So, the gods don't hand out all their gifts at once, not build and brains and flowing speech to all. One man may fail to impress us with his looks but a god can crown his words with beauty, charm, and men look on with delight when he speaks out. Never faltering, filled with winning self-control, he shines forth at assembly grounds and people gaze at him like a god when he walks through the streets. Another man may look like a deathless one on high but there's not a bit of grace to crown his words. Just like you, my fine, handsome friend."
— Homer (The Odyssey)

"One only dies once, and if one does not die well, a good opportunity is lost and will not present itself again."
— José Rizal

""When strong, avoid them. If of high morale, depress them. Seem humble to fill them with conceit. If at ease, exhaust them. If united, separate them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise."
— Sun Tzu

"The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

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— Sun Tzu

"If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself,
you will succumb in every battle"
— Sun Tzu (The Art of War, Special Edition)

"Thus we may know that there are five essentials for victory: (1)
He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight. (2) He
will win who knows how to handle both superior and inferior forces.
(3) He will win whose army is animated by the same spirit throughout
all its ranks. (4) He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take
the enemy unprepared. (5) He will win who has military capacity and
is not interfered with by the sovereign."
— Sun Tzu

"Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you
move, fall like a thunderbolt."
— Sun Tzu

"Supreme excellence consists of breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting."
— Sun Tzu (The Art of War)

"A moment might be a thousand different things."
— Kim Edwards (The Memory Keeper's Daughter)

"You missed a lot of heartache, sure. But David, you missed a lot of joy."
— Kim Edwards (The Memory Keeper's Daughter)

"They turned a distracted gaze on the world, wide-eyed, somehow, and questioning."
— Kim Edwards (The Memory Keeper's Daughter)

"There was something not quite right about her eagerness, an eerie kind of voyeurism in her need for bad news."
— Kim Edwards (The Memory Keeper's Daughter)

"If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was."
— Arthur Golden (Memoirs of a Geisha)

"Adversity is like a strong wind. I don't mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. It also tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see ourselves as we really are, and not merely as we might like to be. (Memoirs of a Geisha 348)"
— Arthur Golden

"I could no more have stopped myself from feeling that sadness than you could stop yourself from smelling an apple that has been cut open on the table before you."
— Arthur Golden (Memoirs of a Geisha)

"Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort. Remember Cedric Diggory."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)

"It is our choices, Harry, that show us who we truly are, far more than our abilities."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets)

"If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)