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“The nature of compassion isn't coming to terms with your own suffering and applying it to others: It's knowing that other folks around you suffer and, no matter what happens to you, no matter how lucky or unlucky you are, they keep suffering. And if you can do something about that, then you do it, and you do it without whining or waving your own fuckin' cross for the world to see. You do it because it's the right thing to do.”
― John Connolly , Dark Hollow

“A home isn't always the house we live in. It's also the people we choose to surround ourselves with.”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

“My feelings for Raphael are mine, and mine alone. I loved him, and that is all anyone needs to know. The rest is no business of any man's.”
― John Connolly, The Book of Lost Things

“They must have been listening,“ Art said, shrugging slightly. “The sun is shining, and maybe they just needed some encouragment. The earth is like that, you know. It needs to hear that someone is waiting for it. People are like that too, I think.”
― T.J. Klune, The Bones Beneath My Skin

“Here's how I feel: People take one another for granted. Like, I'd just hang out with Ingrid in all these random places--in her room or at school or just on a sidewalk somewhere. And the whole time we'd tell eachother things, just say our thoughts outloud. Maybe that would have been boring to some people, but it was never boring to us. I never realized what a big deal that was. How amazing it is to find someone who wants to hear about all the things that go on in your head. You just think that things will stay the way they are. You never look up, in a moment that feels like every other moment of your life, and think, "Soon this will be over." But I understand more now. About how life works.”
― Nina LaCour, Hold Still

“You could have become the villain, Gordo. And it would have been within your rights. Instead you just chose to be an asshole.”
― T.J. Klune, Ravensong

“This is a love story to its blade-dented bone.”
― Simon Jimenez, The Spear Cuts Through Water

“The body became used to exercise, particular sounds and sensations, or even physical pain. But it was strange how shame was something you never became inured to: each time hurt just as much as the first.”
― Shelley Parker-Chan, She Who Became the Sun

“How could her body be a woman’s body, if it didn’t house a woman?”
― Shelley Parker-Chan, She Who Became the Sun

“In real life, people let you go. That was why people longed for the love from stories, love that felt more real than real love.”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, Long Live Evil

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

“My grandfather taught me that if a friend asks for your forgiveness, you should always give it. [...] He also taught me that if you have to give it again, then they weren't a friend to begin with.”
― Fonda Lee, Jade War

“You'd think it would be easier to face death as you get older, but it doesn't work that way. You get more attached to life, to people you love and things that are worth living for.”
― Fonda Lee, Jade Legacy

“Home isn't where you're from, it's where you find light when all grows dark.”
― Pierce Brown, Golden Son

“Friendships take minutes to make, moments to break, years to repair.”
― Pierce Brown, Golden Son

“A man thinks he can fly, but he is afraid to jump. A poor friend pushes him from behind.” He looks up at me. “A good friend jumps with.”
― Pierce Brown, Morning Star

“And if there's one thing I've learned after decades of reading books, it's that best friends can make it through anything, dear.”
― Daniel Alemán, I Might Be in Trouble

“People aren't meant to live for ever; they're meant to live for love. That way - no matter how long they live - they leave something good behind.”
― A.F. Steadman, Skandar and the Skeleton Curse