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“Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

“The world is changing, moving beneath our feet. We are in a war, children of the Red March, though you may not see it yet, may not feel it. We are in a war against everything you can imagine and armed only with our desire to oppose it.”
― Mark Lawrence, Prince of Fools

“I am not interested in being original. I am interested in being true.”
― Agostinho da Silva

“You were given your gift for the joy you may give in return.”
― Cornelius Elmore Addison, Tom Thorneval: Dream Merchant Extraordinaire

“Deserve your dream.”
― octavio paz

“Happiness does not come from without, it comes from within”
― Helen Keller

“We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world”
― Helen Keller

“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much”
― Helen Keller

“What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.”
― Cynthia Ozick

“All through the night, he smiled daggers into my heart.”
― Roshani Chokshi, The Star-Touched Queen

“The moment he touched me, my universe constricted to the space between our lips. We were a snarl of limbs and bright-burning kisses.”
― Roshani Chokshi, The Star-Touched Queen

“My star-touched queen,” he said softly, as if he was remembering something from long ago. “I would break the world to give you what you want.”
― Roshani Chokshi, The Star-Touched Queen

“Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“Stories make sense when so much around us is senseless, and perhaps what makes them most comforting is that while life goes on and pain goes on, stories do us the favor of ending.”
― John Hodgman

“Remember this: Nothing is written in the stars. Not these stars, nor any others. No one controls your destiny.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“/../ no one can change the sound of an echo.”
― Allen Eskens

“If I'm walking on thin ice, I might as well dance my way across.”
― Mercedes Lackey

“He shook his head. “I’m not like your kind.” And then more sharply, almost as an accusation: “Why don’t you carry weapons?”
I bristled, pulling back my shoulders. “We have weapons. We just don’t use them on people.”
“Maybe if you did, you wouldn’t be so weak.”
Weak? My fingers curled to a fist, and swifter than a hare, I punched him in the stomach. He grunted, doubling over.
“Does that seem weak to you, mighty scavenger?” I taunted. “And remember, our numbers are twice that of yours. Maybe it is you who should follow our ways.”
― Mary E. Pearson, Morrighan

“A practised liar gets good at noticing the failings of those with less practice.”
― Mark Lawrence, The Wheel of Osheim

“I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone

“The game is afoot.”
― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Adventure of the Abbey Grange - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story

“My mind," he said, "rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense then with artificial stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation. That is why I have chosen my own particular profession, or rather created it, for I am the only one in the world.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of Four

“Lately, their love had been reduced to yellow emojis.”
― Jonathan Dunne, Lighthouse Jive

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?”
― Mary Oliver

“Why do I matter to you?” I say, my voice breaking.
“You don’t.”
“Then why are you doing this?”
“Because I can. Because I slept for five hundred years and now I want some sport.”
― Melinda Salisbury, The Sleeping Prince

“I’m a king. My father told me a king can rule through fear, or through love. Fifty years from now, the people will love me. They won’t remember this – and those who do will consider it the necessary dark before the dawn. When they have prosperity, and security, and know their place, they will be content and they will love me for it. But until then, I’ll rule through fear if I have to.”
― Melinda Salisbury, The Sleeping Prince

“I’ve always known, on a purely intellectual level, that our separateness and isolation are an illusion. We’re all made of the same thing—the blown-out pieces of matter formed in the fires of dead stars.”
― Blake Crouch, Dark Matter

“I told you to hide your heart once. You should have listened.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen

“The truth is what I make it. I could set this world on fire and call it rain.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen