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“It sounds to me, young one," Haddek said, "that you are searching for something that cannot be found."
"The truth?" Sazed said.
"No," Haddek replied. "A religion that requires no faith of its believers.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Hero of Ages

“No one else moves you. Your life is yours.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Lost Metal

“To believe, it seemed, one had to want to believe.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Hero of Ages

“It’s like the people who believe they’ll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, but who learn it doesn’t work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

“Sorry, Ulric," I whispered. "I've learned to fear someone else more than I do you."
He frowned. "Who?"
"The man... I used to be.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Frugal Wizard's Handbook for Surviving Medieval England

“but every woman has a great deal of experience presenting herself as someone other than who she is, since no girl is ever everything the world wants her to be.”
― Sherry Thomas, The Magnolia Sword: A Ballad of Mulan

“In the end, I stopped worrying about how strange you seemed. I realized that it didn't really matter if I understood you, because I trusted you.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Hero of Ages

“The oldest fears were the most powerful. If there were gods, he thought for sure that the first and greatest—and evilest—would be the god of darkness. Light required effort. Light was a struggle. But the dark was easy, and it had existed before all else and would be there to envelop the universe in its smothering cloak when the last dim stars guttered out at the end of time.”
― Christopher Paolini, Fractal Noise

“I am, unfortunately, the Hero of Ages.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Hero of Ages

“The most unreal thing about the bar was Taylor Swift’s ‘Blank Space’ blasting from the speakers.

‘Dwarves like human music?’ I asked Blitzen.

‘You mean humans like our music.’

‘But …’ I had a sudden image of Taylor Swift’s mom and Freya having a girls’ night out in Nidavellir. ‘Never mind.”
― Rick Riordan, The Sword of Summer

“My only response was more incoherent screaming, because I didn't know the ASL for HOLY FREAKING AGGGHHH!”
― Rick Riordan, The Hammer of Thor

“Does Alex Fierro bother you?' I asked. 'I mean... her being transgender? Like, with you being religious and all?'
Sam arched an eyebrow. 'Being 'religious and all,' a lot of things bother me about this place.' She gestured around us. 'I had to do some soul-searching when I first realized my dad was... you know, Loki. I still don't accept the idea that the Norse gods are gods. They're just powerful beings. Some of them are my annoying relatives. But they are no more than creations of Allah, the only god, just like you and I are.'
'You remember I'm atheist, right?'
She snorted. 'Sounds like the beginning of a joke, doesn't it? An atheist and a Muslim walk into a pagan afterlife...”
― Rick Riordan, The Hammer of Thor

“The gender thing wasn't what surprised me. A huge percentage of the homeless teens I'd met had been assigned one gender at birth but identified as another, or they felt like the whole boy/girl binary didn't apply to them. They ended up on the streets because - shocker - their families didn't accept them. Nothing says "tough love" like kicking your non-heteronormative kid to the curb so they can experience abuse, drugs, high suicide rates, and constant physical danger. Thanks, Mom and Dad!”
― Rick Riordan, The Hammer of Thor

“So... what, he's having one tonight?"
"Worse than that," Annabeth said. "Zeus is having his mom over for a family get-together right now. They're having brunch.”
― Rick Riordan, The Chalice of the Gods

“Annabeth has this magic power where she can look into the future and figure out how long it will take to do certain things. She calls her power "scheduling," which directly overrules my magic power of procrastination.”
― Rick Riordan, The Chalice of the Gods

“Your planet shouldn't have different countries. You should have conquered and unified it all."
"Conquest doesn't remove countries," Nomad said. "It removes lines on a map. Unity requires something else.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Sunlit Man

“Even in science," Contemplation said, "faith plays a role. Each experiment done, each step on the path of knowledge, is achieved by striking out into the darkness. You can't know what you will find, or that you will find anything at all. It is faith that drives us - faith in answers that must exist.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Sunlit Man

“That is the motto women should constantly repeat over and over again. Good for her! Not for me.”
― Amy Poehler, Yes Please

“It’s never overreacting to ask for what you want and need.”
― Amy Poehler

“He followed her trail in the new snow, followed the part of her that was left behind.”
― Gary Paulsen, Tracker

“That's how his grandfather always talked about work - you didn't just work so many hours or days. You worked a job to done. All the way to done. No matter how long it took.”
― Gary Paulsen, Tracker

“Things can turn out differently, Apollo. That's the nice thing about being human. We only have one life, but we can choose what kind of story it's going to be.”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“Showers are good. Perhaps not as good as bacon, but good.”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“I only want to write. And there's no college for that except life.”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

“Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can.”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

“Just to be in love seemed the most blissful luxury I had ever known. The thought came to me that perhaps it is the loving that counts, not the being loved in return—that perhaps true loving can never know anything but happiness. For a moment I felt that I had discovered a great truth.”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

“And no bathroom on earth will make up for marrying a bearded man you hate.”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

“There is something revolting about the way girls' minds so often jump to marriage long before they jump to love.”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

“It's odd how different a house feels when one is alone in it. It makes it easier to think rather private thoughts...”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

“I know all about the facts of life, and I don't think much of them.”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle