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“No one expected me. Everything awaited me.”
― Patti Smith, Just Kids

“What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost invisible acts of compassion.”
― Chris Abani

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

“You are happy even if you are afraid to admit it.”
― David Levithan, The Realm of Possibility

“Maybe there is hope in the fragments, that what is lost can always be filled in by someone who knows.”
― David Levithan, The Realm of Possibility

“It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.”
― W.C. Fields

“Words were different when they lived inside of you.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“I hated being volunteered. The problem with my life was that it was someone else's idea.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“It's amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday.”
― John Guare, Landscape of the Body

“The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of... We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart.”
― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“If you love what you do and are willing to do what it takes, it's within your reach. And it'll be worth every minute you spend alone at night, thinking and thinking about what it is you want to design or build. It'll be worth it, I promise.”
― Steve Wozniak

“I promise, I will not let you die without being kissed.”
― Marissa Meyer, Cress

“Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough.”
― Aisha Tyler