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“He who hurries through life hurries to his grave.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

“All these kings would do a deal better if they would put down their swords and listen to their mothers.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“Like all strong people, she suffered always a measure of loneliness; she was a marginal outsider, a secret infidel of a certain sort.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“We’re not completely happy here because we’re not supposed to be! Earth is not our final home; we were created for something much better.”
― Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth am I Here for?

“Maybe he didn’t really encourage me to do things, but he didn’t prevent me from doing them either. But after a while, I didn’t do things because I didn’t want him to think different about me. But the thing is, I wasn’t being honest. So, why would I care whether or not he loved me when he didn’t really even know me?”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“I couldn't help thinking that if I, by pure chance, had found a whole universe in a single unknown book, buried in that endless necropolis, tens of thousands more would remain unexplored, forgotten forever. I felt myself surrounded by millions of abandoned pages, by worlds and souls without an owner sinking in an ocean of darkness, while the world that throbbed outside the library seemed to be losing its memory, day after day, unknowingly, feeling all the wiser the more it forgot.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is clear.”
― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

“that love is the most powerful force in the world. That love can do anything.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Fallen Angels

“There’s a coward and a fool, and both of them are you, My heart is cracked and broken, but yours is frozen through.”
― Jay Bell, Something Like Summer

“Death was like an unpleasant neighbor. You didn’t talk about him for fear he might hear you and decide to pay a visit.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“You think you want love, Mary. You think it is this beautiful gift that does nothing but fill you and make you whole. But you are wrong. Love can be cruel and ugly. It can become dark and cause the deepest pain.”
― Carrie Ryan, The Forest of Hands and Teeth

“I had them all fooled into believing I was normal and well-adjusted, a rock of sensibility who could always be counted on to have a positive attitude.”
― Sara Zarr, Sweethearts

“His face and arms are so artfully disguised as to be invisible. I kneel beside him. “I guess all those hours decorating cakes paid off.” Peeta smiles. “Yes, frosting. The final defense of the dying.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“You’re my change of skin / my summer-winter-fall / I spring to follow you / this loss is beautiful.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver

“Have something to bring to the table, because that will make you more welcome.”
― Randy Pausch

“Because something is significantly wrong with a creature that sacrifices its children’s lives to settle its differences.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“Almost everybody I know has died,” Grandma said. “Bunch of wimps.”
― Janet Evanovich, High Five

“Donny recovered herself. “Dude, that was the seventh sign of the apocalypse. I’m so not going to class on the last day of the world.”
― Gwen Hayes, Falling Under

“(My proudest moment as a child was the time I beat my uncle Pierre at Scrabble with the seven-letter word FARTING.)”
― Tina Fey, Bossypants

“Never make a decision until you have to.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“I realize that sometimes death comes before you expect it. That while we are rarely prepared for our friends, family and loved ones to die, we are never prepared for our own deaths. Never prepared to reconcile our own regrets.”
― Carrie Ryan, The Forest of Hands and Teeth

“Protecting people from the truth is another way of shutting them out.”
― Blaize Clement

“I wasn’t a fabulous cook. I didn’t have a boyfriend, much less a husband. And I wasn’t a big financial success. I could live with all those failings as long as I knew that once in a while I looked really hot.”
― Janet Evanovich, High Five

“The beauty of the human soul Is not the pretty face. It’s found within the heart and hands Of those who look — and stay.”
― Laura Greenwald, Eye of the Beholder: True Stories of People with Facial Differences

“The world is full of shitheads, Rhea. Don’t listen to them—listen to me. And I know that Lou is one of those shitheads. But I listen.”
― Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad

“I noticed the plants growing around me. Tall with leaves like arrowheads. Blossoms with three white petals. I knelt down in the water, my fingers digging into the soft mud, and I pulled up handfuls of the roots. Small, bluish tubers that don’t look like much but boiled or baked are as good as any potato. “Katniss,” I said aloud. It’s the plant I was named for. And I heard my father’s voice joking, “As long as you can find yourself, you’ll never starve.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“When God looks at you, he doesn’t see you; he sees the One who surrounds you. That means that failure is not a concern for you. Your victory is secure.”
― Max Lucado, Grace for the Moment

“Though you see nothing, he is acting.”
― Max Lucado, Grace for the Moment

“Language, that most human invention, can enable what, in principle, should not be possible. It can allow all of us, even the congenitally blind, to see with another person’s eyes.”
― Oliver Sacks

“Like all failed experiments, that one taught me something I didn’t expect: one key ingredient of so-called experience is the delusional faith that it is unique and special, that those included in it are privileged and those excluded from it are missing out. And I, like a scientist unwittingly inhaling toxic fumes from the beaker I was boiling in my lab, had, through sheer physical proximity, been infected by that same delusion and in my drugged state had come to believe I was Excluded: condemned to stand shivering outside the public library at Fifth Avenue and Forty-second Street forever and...”
― Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad