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“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“The universe is trying to tell us something we both should already know: We're stronger together than apart.”
― Dean Winchester

“Accidents don't just happen accidently.”
― Dean Winchester

“Dawn breaks
And blossoms open
Gates of paradise.”
― Dean Koontz, The City

“my own son has taught me that handicaps can be converted into stepping stones on which one may climb toward some worthy goal, unless they are accepted as obstacles, and used as alibis.”
― Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich

“You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly in times of great trouble?”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

“How terrible, to navigate the world without a story to comfort you.”
― Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning

“Clouds and fire—these two things her people had only ever feared. Fire was death in the silo, and clouds consumed those who dared to leave. And yet, as the clouds closed in overhead and flames were agitated higher, there was comfort in both. The clouds were a roof of sorts, the fire warmth. There was less here to fear.”
― Hugh Howey, Dust

“Libraries were full of ideas—perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

“To the people who look at the stars and wish, Rhys."
Rhys clinked his glass against mine. “To the stars who listen— and the dreams that are answered.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain is usually the person who locks up the maiden and throws away the key. He was the one who let me out.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“No. I can survive well enough on my own— if given the proper reading material.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

“To the stars who listen—and the dreams that are answered.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“You could rattle the stars," she whispered. "You could do anything, if only you dared. And deep down, you know it, too. That’s what scares you most.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

“It’s interesting that, once we leave childhood, we stop asking these apparently childish questions.”
― Rory Sutherland, Alchemy: The Dark Art and Curious Science of Creating Magic in Brands, Business, and Life

“A familiar feeling stirred in her belly. The wonderful, buzzing swirl of butterflies that came with new things. The sensation she’d been chasing as she sought out the parts of herself she’d never gotten to know, waiting for something to settle and show itself, to tell her This is you.”
― Sarah T. Dubb, Birding with Benefits

“People, patterns, clues—”
― Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover

“What could be so important about life that it required such extensive documentation?”
― Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover

“Well, that’s because you’re missing the most important element of observation.” I peered at him over the top of my binoculars. “What’s that?” He wiggled his eyebrows. “Patience.”
― Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover

“So the best way to understand the world is to look for its patterns.”
― Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover

“I’ve never read of a single rider losing their soul to their powers. The dragons keep us from that.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by generosity, and the liar by speaking the truth.

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― Siddhārtha Gautama, The Dhammapada

“Things can sometimes move slowly here on Earth. More often, thought, they move quickly so use your time well. It will be gone before you know it.”
― Oliver Jeffers

“Sometimes I feel like I don’t have to tell you things, because I feel like when you look at me, you can see everything.”
― Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory

“I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

“We stay quiet about the injustice of all this simply because it hurts his feelings?”
― Chloe Gong, These Violent Delights

“I'm in love with you," he said quietly.

"Augustus," I said.

"I am," he said. He was staring at me, and I could see the corners of his eyes crinkling. "I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have, and I am in love with you.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Saying 'I notice you're a nerd' is like saying, 'Hey, I notice that you'd rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you'd rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Lindsay Lohan. Why is that?' In fact, it seems to me that most contemporary insults are pretty lame. Even 'lame' is kind of lame. Saying 'You're lame' is like saying 'You walk with a limp.' Yeah, whatever, so does 50 Cent, and he's done all right for himself.”
― John Green