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“Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right.”
― Henry Ford

“Not all those who wander are lost.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!”
― Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

“It must be so easy to judge the decisions of someone else when you sit back and do nothing.”
― Scott Sigler, Alive

“Don't base reality on what you have seen when you have seen very little.”
― Scott Sigler, Alive

“Fulfillment comes from striving to succeed, to survive by your own wits and strength.”
― Michael J. Sullivan, Age of Myth

“You be as angry as you need to be," she said. "Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Not your grandma, not your dad, no one. And if you need to break things, then by God, you break them good and hard."

He couldn't look at her. He just couldn't.

"And if, one day," she said, really crying now, "you look back and you feel bad for being so angry, if you feel bad for being so angry at me that you couldn't even speak to me, then you have to know, Conor, you have to know that it was okay. It was okay. That I knew. I know, okay? I know everything you need to tell me without you having to say it out loud. All right?"

He still couldn't look at her. He couldn't raise his head, it felt so heavy. He was bent in two, like he was being torn right down through his middle.

But he nodded.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

“And if one day,' she said, really crying now, 'you look back and you feel bad for being so angry, if you feel bad for being so angry at me that you couldn't even speak to me, then you have to know, Conor, you have to that is was okay. It was okay. That I knew. I know, okay? I know everything you need to tell me without you having to say it out loud.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

“You be as angry as you need to be,” she said. “Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. Not your grandma, not your dad, no one. And if you need to break things, then by God, you break them good and hard.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

“Who am I? the monster repeated, still roaring. I am the spine that the mountains hang upon! I am the tears that the rivers cry! I am the lungs that breathe the wind! I am the wolf that kills the stag, the hawk that kills the mouse, the spider that kills the fly! I am the stag, the mouse and the fly that are eaten! I am the snake of the world devouring its tail! I am everything untamed and untameable! It brought Conor up close to its eye. I am thils wild earth, come for you, Conor O'Malley.


"You look like a tree," Conor said.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

“Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own.”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming

“They had forgotten what it was like to be hungry, needing to prove oneself on a regular basis. And hungry people usually won.”
― Shayne Silvers, Whispers

“if I noticed guilt used as a weapon to sway opinion, I disregarded the argument.”
― Shayne Silvers, Whispers

“Psychopaths typically had zero concern for the general population. If they wanted something, and it didn’t directly hurt someone they cared about, they didn’t really understand why anyone else cried about the loss of innocent life that had stood between them and their goal. They just took the shiny they had wanted. What’s the big deal?”
― Shayne Silvers, Whispers

“The dead can’t hurt you. It’s the living you have to worry about.”
― Callie Langridge, A Time to Change

“Life was not safe and nothing could make it so, neither fashionable dresses nor bank accounts. The baseline of human life was courage.”
― Paulette Jiles, News of the World

“Don’t fight the people you hate. Fight for the people you love, and you’ll be more dangerous than you ever dreamed possible. Fight for them”
― Andrew Barrer, Young Blood

“It represents a whole year of my life filled with nothing but days like that. We all have them. It’s called being human—and it’s allowed, you know.”
― E.E. Holmes, Whispers of the Walker

“What was it like, I wondered, to have a brain that worked like that—organizing and dealing appropriately with feelings instead of alternately ignoring and drowning in them?”
― E.E. Holmes, Heart of the Rebellion

“Because it was one thing to know your family loved you, but another entirely when they showed up in the hardest points of your life.”
― Shannon Mayer, Kingdom of Storms

“Sometimes in life, you’ll get a feeling in your gut, a feeling that pushes you to do or say something, and more often than not you end up living with regret if you ignore it.”
― Sara Snow, Luna Rising

“But when those in charge maintain their power through lies, the truth can’t emerge without a fight.”
― E.E. Holmes, The Girl at the Heart of the Storm

“My mother told me once that if you loved someone enough that it hurt you when they died, you shouldn’t try to erase the grief. The grief was what told you how deeply you loved them.”
― Shannon Mayer, Fury of a Phoenix

“Sometimes we must find our wolf to survive what the world throws at us, to bare our teeth and howl into the oncoming storm that we will not be broken, that we are the warriors our ancestors need us to be, to break the cycles we have been born into.”
― Shannon Mayer, Gossamer

“Sometimes we must find our wolf to survive what the world throws at us, to bare our teeth and howl into the oncoming storm that we will not be broken, that we are the warriors our ancestors need us to be, to break the cycles we have been born into. And then when the time comes, we must be brave enough to gently lay our wolf down, and embrace a softer side when the battles are done. We need to recognize when it is time to breathe deeply and start fresh, where we don't have to fight so fucking hard to be safe, loved, and cherished.”
― Shannon Mayer, Gossamer

“Don’t take things so personal, Carl. Rose is like sand on a camel’s back. Sometimes it makes the arse itch and sometimes it doesn’t. It’s all a question of how thick-skinned a person is.”
― Jussi Adler-Olsen, A Conspiracy of Faith

“People in power always take advantage of those without power.”
― Christopher Pike, Thirst No. 1: The Last Vampire, Black Blood, and Red Dice

“Words have power, even those cast without caution.”
― Shannon Mayer, Neverthorn

“hearts aren’t chessboards and they don’t play by the rules—”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Ten Thousand Doors of January

“I hope you will find the cracks in the world and wedge them wider, so the light of other suns shines through; I hope you will keep the world unruly, messy, full of strange magics; I hope you will run through every open Door and tell stories when you return.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Ten Thousand Doors of January