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“The worst part of being truly alone is you think about all the times you wished that everyone would just leave you be. Then they do, and you are left being, and you turn out to be terrible company.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“The problem with happy endings is that they're either not really happy, or not really endings, you know? In real life, some things get better and some things get worse. And then eventually you die.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“You remember your first love because they show you, prove to you, that you can love and be loved, that nothing in this world is deserved except for love, that love is both how you become a person and why.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“You will always struggle with not feeling productive until you accept that your own joy can be something you produce. It is not the only thing you will make, nor should it be, but it is something valuable and beautiful.”
― Hank Green, A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor

“The most impactful thing you can do with power is almost always to give it away.”
― Hank Green, A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor

“People will just share the things that confirm their ideology, and those things will always exist. Our reality isn't about what's real, it's about what we pay attention to.”
― Hank Green, A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor

“If you want to be happy, let go of your wants. If you want to be effective, harness them.”
― Hank Green, A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor

“You are a story that you tell yourself, and even if it is not always accurate, it is who you are, and that is very important to you.”
― Hank Green, A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor

“People who "don't consider race or gender" sure seem to end up hiring almost all white guys, almost as if they're absolutely considering race and gender.”
― Hank Green, A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor

“The solution is, everywhere and always, the decentralization and redistribution of all forms of power.”
― Hank Green, A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor

“It might be that saving the world is idiotically simple. Maybe we just need to connect and care for one another.”
― Hank Green, A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor

“We’ve always been privileged, you see. Privilege just means ‘private law.’ That’s exactly what it means.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Truth

“William wondered why he always disliked people who said “no offense meant.” Maybe it was because they found it easier to say “no offense meant” than actually to refrain from giving offense.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Truth

“You are concerned citizens.” He knew about concerned citizens. Wherever they were, they all spoke the same private language, where “traditional values” meant “hang someone.” He did not have a problem with this, broadly speaking, but it never hurt to understand your employer.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Truth

“No law says you have to like dwarfs and trolls,' said Goodmountain.
'Yes, but there ought to be a law against disliking them the way he does.'
'Ah. Now you've drawn me a picture.'
'Maybe you've heard the term "lesser races"?'
'And now you've coloured it in.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Truth

“So... we have what the people are interested in, and human interest stories, which is what humans are interested in, and the public interest, which no one is interested in.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Truth

“My heart is often iron, but it melts for the broken.”
― Pierce Brown, Light Bringer

“If a man cannot learn from his mistakes, then what hope is there but to kill us all at first sin?”
― Pierce Brown, Light Bringer

“Demokracy gives humanity what it wants, boy. The hierarchy gives humanity what it needs. Structure, and hope to escape our own stupidity.”
― Pierce Brown, Light Bringer

“You’re acting like you share a secret language all of a sudden.” “Isn’t that always the case with those who’ve read the same books?”
― Pierce Brown, Light Bringer

“Forgetting is essential to learning, just as exhaling is essential to breathing. Breathe out, then in. Find the self, then lose it once again. Thus, the path goes ever onward.”
― Pierce Brown, Light Bringer

“I think…if love is anything, it is truth. If life is anything, it is struggle.”
― Pierce Brown, Light Bringer