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“I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“Give up yourself, and you will find your real self. Lose your life and you will save it. Submit to death, death of your ambitions and favorite wishes every day and death of your whole body in the end submit with ever fiber of your being, and you will find eternal life. Keep back nothing. Nothing that you have not given away will be really yours. Nothing in you that has not died will ever be raised from the dead. Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“I am tired of trying to hold things together that cannot be held.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“People don’t pay much attention to anything unless you give them reason to”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“I mean only that I hope they find darkness or paradise without fear of it, if they can.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“We cannot go backward,' Marco says. 'A great deal is not how it used to be.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“Misdirection is one of my strengths.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“Plenty of humans were monstrous, and plenty of monsters knew how to play at being human.”
― Victoria Schwab, Vicious

“When no one understands, that's usually a good sign that you're wrong.”
― Victoria Schwab, Vicious

“Picking the best solution really depended on your definition of best.”
― Victoria Schwab, Vicious

“Most maidens are perfectly capable of rescuing themselves in my experience, at least the ones worth something, in any case.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“When you’re with a girl, it’s always best to act like you’re an old hand at everything—not to impress her, but just to make sure she feels safe.”
― Tim Tharp, The Spectacular Now

“True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.”
― Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

“Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.”
― Anonymous

“The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God's love for us does not.”
― C.S. Lewis

“You would not have called to me unless I had been calling to you," said the Lion.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair

“Nothing you have not given away will ever really be yours.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.”
― Christopher Markus

“Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else.”
― C.S. Lewis

“I never exactly made a book. It's rather like taking dictation. I was given things to say. ”
― C.S. Lewis

“This business of womanhood is a heavy burden.”
― Tsitsi Dangarembga

“It’s bad enough . . . when a country gets colonized, but when the people do as well! That’s the end, really, that’s the end.”
― Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions

“...condemning Nyasha to whoredom, making her a victim of her femaleness, just as I had felt victimised at home in the days when Nhamo went to school and I grew my maize. The victimisation, I saw, was universal. It didn't depend on poverty, on lack of education or on tradition. It didn't depend on any of the things I had thought it depended on. Men took it everywhere with them. Even heroes like Babamukuru did it. And that was the problem. You had to admit Nyasha had no tact. You had to admit she was altogether too volatile and strong-willed. You couldn't ignore the fact that she had no respect for Babamukuru when she ought to have had lots of it. But what I didn't like was the way that all conflicts came back to the question of femaleness. Femaleness as opposed and inferior to maleness.”
― Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions

“Why do you lie so much? And about the weirdest little things?", my mother always asked me. "I don’t know", I always said. But I did know. It was very simple. Because it was a better story.”
― Mona Awad, Bunny

“The day you are not a fire,” he said, “is the day the earth will fall still for me.”
― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Six

“I could study you for a lifetime, carrying all your peculiarities and discretions in the webs of my spidery palms, and still feel empty-handed”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether