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  • #1
    Gabrielle Zevin
    “The way to turn an ex-lover into a friend is to never stop loving them, to know that when one phase of a relationship ends it can transform into something else. It is to acknowledge that love is both a constant and a variable at the same time.”
    Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

  • #2
    Gabrielle Zevin
    “And what is love, in the end?" Alabaster said. "Except the irrational desire to put evolutionary competitiveness aside in order to ease someone else's journey through life?”
    Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

  • #3
    Gabrielle Zevin
    “What is a game?" Marx said. "It's tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow. It's the possibility of infinite rebirth, infinite redemption. The idea that if you keep playing, you could win. No loss is permanent, because nothing is permanent, ever.”
    Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

  • #4
    Gabrielle Zevin
    “Why wouldn’t you tell someone you loved them? Once you loved someone, you repeated it until they were tired of hearing it. You said it until it ceased to have meaning. Why not? Of course, you goddamn did.”
    Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

  • #5
    Gabrielle Zevin
    “We are all living, at most, half of a life, she thought. There was the life you lived, which consisted of the choices you made. And then, there was the other life, the one that was the things you hadn't chosen.”
    Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

  • #6
    Gabrielle Zevin
    “If you're always aiming for perfection, you won't make anything at all.”
    Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

  • #7
    Gabrielle Zevin
    “But it is worth noting that to be good at something is not quite the same as loving it.”
    Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

  • #8
    Gabrielle Zevin
    “This is what time travel is. It’s looking at a person, and seeing them in the present and the past, concurrently. And that mode of transport only worked with those one had known a significant time.”
    Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

  • #9
    Gabrielle Zevin
    “It isn’t a sadness, but a joy, that we don’t do the same things for the length of our lives.”
    Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

  • #10
    Gabrielle Zevin
    “Memory, you realized long ago, is a game that a healthy-brained person can play all the time, and the game of memory is won or lost on one criterion: Do you leave the formation of memories to happenstance, or do you decide to remember?”
    Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

  • #11
    Gabrielle Zevin
    “There are no ghosts, but up here”—she gestured toward her head—“it’s a haunted house.”
    Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

  • #12
    Gabrielle Zevin
    “It was never worth worrying about someone you didn’t love. And it wasn’t love if you didn’t worry.”
    Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

  • #13
    Gabrielle Zevin
    “This life is filled with inescapable moral compromises. We should do what we can to avoid the easy ones.”
    Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

  • #14
    Will Wight
    “There are a million Paths in this world, Lindon, but any sage will tell you they can all be reduced to one. Improve yourself.”
    Will Wight, Unsouled

  • #15
    Will Wight
    “When a traveler cannot find a path, sometimes he must make his own.
    Will Wight, Unsouled

  • #16
    Will Wight
    “Fate is not fair, but it is just. Hard work is never in vain…even when it does not achieve what you wished.”
    Will Wight, Unsouled

  • #17
    Will Wight
    “When there’s only one road forward, take it with a smile.”
    Will Wight, Unsouled

  • #18
    Cesare Pavese
    “We do not remember days, we remember moments. The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.”
    Cesare Pavese

  • #19
    Lao Tzu
    “The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.”
    Lao Tzu, Te-Tao Ching

  • #20
    Stephen McCranie
    “The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried.”
    Stephen McCranie

  • #21
    G. Michael Hopf
    “Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.”
    G. Michael Hopf, Those Who Remain

  • #22
    Robert Charles Wilson
    “Ars moriendi ars vivendi est: the art of dying is the art of living.”
    Robert Charles Wilson, Spin

  • #23
    Robert Charles Wilson
    “There are so many kinds of time. The time by which we measure our lives. Months and years. Or the big time, the time that raises mountains and makes stars. Or all the things that happen between one heartbeat and the next. Its hard to live in all those kinds of times. Easy to forget that you live in all of them.”
    Robert Charles Wilson, Spin

  • #24
    Robert Charles Wilson
    “We're all born strangers to ourselves and each other, and we're seldom formally introduced.”
    Robert Charles Wilson, Spin

  • #25
    Robert Charles Wilson
    “We're as ephemeral as raindrops. We all fall, and we all land somewhere.”
    Robert Charles Wilson, Spin

  • #26
    “You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.”
    Paul Sweeney

  • #27
    “Grief, my mother once told me, is love’s most honest expression. The last and hardest aspect of truly, truly caring for someone. She said it at her own mother’s funeral rites, tears in her eyes even as she tried to comfort a boy too young to understand why he was so sad, why his grandmother couldn’t be there anymore. She explained through choking sobs that without grief, love would be meaningless. Because it is impossible to truly love something that cannot be lost.”
    James Islington, The Strength of the Few

  • #28
    “A father is a man who loves you, no matter what. Not all of us can have one.”
    James Islington, The Strength of the Few

  • #29
    “Instead of the easy gift of our lives, we must suffer the hundred little deaths of self in order to protect this world. Not because what we do is good, but because good will no longer exist if we do not.”
    James Islington, The Strength of the Few

  • #30
    “...without grief, love would be meaningless. Because it is impossible to truly love something that cannot be lost.”
    James Islington, The Strength of the Few



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