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“Life is meant to be felt. Else why live? Valleys make the mountains.”
― Pierce Brown, Dark Age

“You asked, what do I fear? I fear a man who believes in good. For he can excuse any evil.”
― Pierce Brown, Dark Age

“I do not know why they make you girls wear dresses, though. Maybe to make it hurt more to explore”
― Pierce Brown, Dark Age

“A life without books is a life not lived.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Vampire

“There’s no misery so deep as one you face by yourself. No nights darker than ones you spend alone. But you can learn to live with any weight. Your scars grow thick enough, they become armour.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Vampire

“Ask me not if God exists, but why he's such a prick.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Vampire

“Put a man in a room for a hundred years with a thousand books, and he’ll know a million truths. Put him in a room for a year with silence, and he’ll know himself.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Vampire

“Astrid was just as fierce a scholar as I was a swordsman. A girl who wielded books like blades.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Vampire

“Hearts only bruise. They never break.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Vampire

“My friends are the hill I die on.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Vampire

“I will not give my heart to a coward. I will give it to a lion.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Vampire

“Adolin is right,” Veil said. “He’s always been right about you. Tell me. Who is the strongest of mind? The woman whose emotions are always on her side? Or the woman whose own thoughts betray her? You have fought this fight every day of your life, Shallan. And you are not weak.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Rhythm of War

“It was the living who ignored the strange and wonderful, because life was too full of the boring and mundane.”
― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

“Belief is one of the most powerful organic forces in the multiverse. It may not be able to move mountains, exactly. But it can create someone who can.

People get exactly the wrong idea about belief. They think it works back to front. They think the sequence is, first object, then belief. In fact, it works the other way.”
― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

“That's not fair, you know. If we knew when we were going to die, people would lead better lives."

IF PEOPLE KNEW WHEN THEY WERE GOING TO DIE, I THINK THEY PROBABLY WOULDN'T LIVE AT ALL.”
― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

“Inside every lump of coal there's a diamond waiting to get out.”
― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

“Inside Every Living Person is a Dead Person Waiting to Get Out…”
― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

“You can't be loony and rich. You've got to be eccentric if you're rich.”
― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

“You might not believe in our rebellion. But I saw Tactus change before his future was robbed from him. I’ve seen Ragnar forget his bonds and reach for what he wants in this world. I’ve seen Sevro become a man. I’ve seen myself change. I truly do believe we choose who we want to be in this life. It isn’t preordained. You taught me loyalty, more than Mustang, more than Roque. And because of that, I believe in you, Victra. As much as I’ve ever believed in anyone.” I hold out my hand. “Be my family and I will never forsake you. I will never lie to you. I will be your brother as long as you live.” Startled by the emotion in my voice, the cold woman stares up at me. Those defenses she erected forgotten now. In another life we might have been a pair. Might have had that fire I feel for Mustang, for Eo. But not in this life. Victra does not soften. Does not crumble to tears. There’s still rage inside her. Still raw hate and so much betrayal and frustration and loss coiled around her icy heart. But in this moment, she is free of it all. In this moment, she reaches solemnly up to grasp my hand. And I feel the hope flicker in me. “Welcome to the Sons of Ares.”
― Pierce Brown, Morning Star