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“She was honey-sweet and perfect... But that was just the surface layer; deeper there was more: darkness and sadness and pain”
― Eric S. Nylund, Mortal Coils

“How are you sure we're alive?”
― Eric S. Nylund, Halo: Ghosts of Onyx

“I have no right to be alive when so many brave men are dead”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“when you were out of options, then you were using the wrong tactics? You had to bend the rules. Shift perspective—anything to find a way out of a hopeless situation.”
― Eric S. Nylund, The Fall of Reach

“But I lived in that moment - my life became beautiful again for those few seconds when our hands grazed.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses

“You cling so hard to morality out of a desperation for others to like you. You think they'd stop treating you like an outsider if you were a good boy who did everything they wanted. This is your greatest weakness. If you want any true power over your life, you must stop caring so much about what others think.”
― Xiran Jay Zhao, Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor

“You’re their CO. You have to inspire and command their respect. I’m their drill instructor. I get to be their worst nightmare.”
― Eric S. Nylund, Ghosts of Onyx

“I extrapolate from known facts. But I don't mind being wrong sometimes”
― Karen Traviss, Halo: Glasslands

“What is to be my quest? Bilbo went to find a treasure, there and back again; but I go to lose one, and not return, as far as I can see”
― Tolkien J.R.R.

“Promises, hearts, everything was meant to be broken, young man... especially rules.”
― Eric S. Nylund, Mortal Coils

“This wasn't music to dance to - it was music to worship, music to fill in the gaps of my soul, to bring me to a place where there was no pain.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses

“Because I wouldn't want to die alone," I said, and my voice wobbled as I looked at Tamlin again, forcing myself to meet his stare. "Because I'd want someone to hold my hand until the end, and awhile after that.
That's something everyone deserves, human or faerie.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses

“They love their books, do they not? They believe anything that is written”
― Eric S. Nylund, Mortal Coils

“We can be strong in the face of kings and priests... but to live is to have worries and uncertainties. Keep them inside, and they will destroy you for certain.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Elantris

“Hope survives best at the hearth.”
― Rick Riordan

“Be glad of your human heart, Feyre. Pity those who don’t feel anything at all.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses

“Make no mistake Robb, these are your bannermen, not your friends”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, and another fig was Europe and Africa and South America, and another fig was Constantin and Socrates and Attila and a pack of other lovers with queer names and offbeat professions, and another fig was an Olympic lady crew champion, and beyond and above these figs were many more figs I couldn't quite make out. I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“Here was a new generation, shouting the old cries, learning the old creeds, through a revery of long days and nights; destined finally to go out into that dirty gray turmoil to follow love and pride; a new generation dedicated more than the last to the fear of poverty and the worship of success; grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken...”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting –
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.”
― Mary Oliver

“Hell is a collection of individuals who are spending the bulk of their time working on a task they don’t like and are not especially good at.”
― David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

“When does a man die? When he is hit by a bullet? No! When he suffers a disease? No! When he ate a soup made out of a poisonous mushroom? No! A man dies when he is forgotten!”
― Eiichiro Oda, One Piece, Volume 16: Carrying On His Will