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“I won't be okay, but I will be better”
― Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us

“No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away...”
― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

“Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.”
― W. Clement Stone

“Someone, somewhere in this city, is getting ready to take a plunge. Somewhere, a child is crying. Someone has come to a stop, so weighed down that they can’t go any further. I’m holding Kihachi’s hand. He is telling stories again today, stories that may or may not save someone else. And I… am thinking about writing my own story. I’ll start by writing the first letter of the first word.”
― Dentō Hayane, The Cat Proposed

“On a long enough timeline, endings are inevitable.
Tragedy is inevitable.
Fortunately, so is joy.”
― Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

“people went looking to find themselves and what they found was somebody else.”
― Terry Pratchett, Raising Steam

“You are a loud, impulsive, persistent seeker of justice, and that makes people uncomfortable, but it doesn’t make you bad. It makes you very good, in fact.”
― Aiden Thomas, The Sunbearer Trials

“In the same way that music is made up of more than notes, books are more than just words.”
― Sōsuke Natsukawa, The Cat Who Saved Books

“Home is what you take with you, not what you leave behind.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season

“No, it wasn't the end. It was a better beginning.”
― Aiden Thomas, Cemetery Boys

“Was this, I wondered, what it felt like to be a grown-up? Did you always feel the weight of things on you, your cares pressing you down like a burden you could never shake? No wonder Peter could fly. He had no worries to weight him to earth.”
― Christina Henry, Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook

“You're a fire hazard, Rhodes," he said. "So stop apologizing for the damage and just let the fucker burn.”
― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Six

“Food and stories,” I say. “Isn’t that all you need?”
― Erik J. Brown, All That's Left in the World

“How tremendous the agony of unmade decisions.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“They see life as a gift and are acutely aware that one day it will end, that our driving force is to survive, and the only certainty is that we won’t.”
― Tony Santorella, Bored Gay Werewolf

“She made dramatic plans in the darkness and discarded them in daylight.”
― T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone

“One generation to change the text. One generation chooses to teach that text. The next grows, and the lie becomes history.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“Some people are born in the mountains, while others are born by the sea. Some people are happy to live in the place they were born, while others must make a journey to reach the climate in which they can flourish and grow. Between the ocean and the mountains is a wild forest. That is where I want to make my home.”
― Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer: A Memoir

“Maybe just...Don't try to be what you think you should be. Be what you love.”
― Kevin Panetta, Bloom

“Devil wouldn’t be the devil if he didn’t know how to tempt.”
― P. Djèlí Clark, Ring Shout

“Love who you want to love, and do it unapologetically, including that face you see every day in the mirror.”
― George M. Johnson, All Boys Aren’t Blue

“If you do not find yourself a galaxy, it is not so bad to find yourself a star.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Gideon the Ninth

“Remember, you have the right to be proud; remember, you have the right to be you.”
― Dean Atta, The Black Flamingo

“If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“We are human, and we are fallible. But as long as we promise to learn and grow, then we are as good as we can be.”
― Adam Holcombe, A Necromancer Called Gam Gam

“There's a ghost at your shoulder,
It stands at your hair
And it asks you to name it
And tell it it's there.”
― Mina Ikemoto Ghosh, Hyo the Hellmaker

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“For those of you who read the trigger warnings and said “Accidental cannibalism?! Count me in!” This one’s for you.”
― Brynne Weaver, Butcher & Blackbird

“And although living is scary when we continue to suffer, I would do it all over again to be able to write this book for you. To hope. To dream. To want love. These are dangerous acts. Fear and hope are bound up together inside of us, alongside our flaws and our divinity. In this darkness, we can find an inner light to guide us. And there is light in you, even if you can't see it.”
― Mike Curato, Flamer

“It's not natural for women to fight."
"It's not natural for someone to be as stupid as he is tall, and yet there you stand.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows