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“Life is fragile and fleeting. And cruel.”
― J.W. Lynne, Above the Sky Trilogy

“Anything is easy with enough practice,” said the farmer, smiling. “Every talent is merely repetition, performing the same action ten thousand times until it is perfect…until it is divine. With enough strikes of this sword, anyone can become a master, but there is always a beginning. There is always the first strike.”
― J.N. Chaney, Hope Everlasting

“Sometimes the best thing about us isn’t what we’re gifted with, but what we can make others feel just by our very nature of existing.”
― Sarah Noffke, Defects

“Books are full of words and they are the most influential tools in the world. These seemingly innocent things strung together by letters have the power to ignite ideas, to spark a dying motivation, to fuel a passion. Words in essence can breathe life and they can take it.”
― Sarah Noffke, Warriors

“I’ve trained in many martial arts to defend myself against myriad weapons but never against beards. There’s not a whole lot of precedent.”
― Kevin Hearne, Hammered

“Why don’t high school math teachers ever come up with cool problems like this? If a 150-pound Irish wolfhound launches himself at seventeen miles per hour at a 250-pound draugr, will that dead motherfucker go down? The answer is Hel yes.”
― Kevin Hearne, Tricked

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― Kevin Hearne, Tricked

“but legions remain who would condemn a starving man to amputation for pinching a crust of bread. We are petty creatures who seek to aggrandize ourselves by feasting on the dignity of our fellows.”
― Kevin Hearne, Trapped

“For, in the end, that is all life is—a series of teachings that we may choose to accept or reject,” he replied. “Mistakes and failures are guaranteed, but it is how we choose to educate ourselves after we stumble that molds who we become.”
― Bella Forrest, Harley Merlin and the Stolen Magicals

“Nothing like the threat of eternal torment to get people sacrificing and praying.”
― J.B. Trepagnier, Monster Song

“Who needs a virus like the Collapse to exterminate the population when there's fundamental human nature and the desire for power?”
― Jenetta Penner, Actualized

“A lifetime of tired eyes and hungry bellies. A circular pattern. And then you die.”
― Jenetta Penner, Collapsed

“Sometimes that’s all we needed, one friend rooting for us when we couldn’t root for ourselves any longer.”
― Leia Stone, Fallen Academy: Year Three

“it almost seems like I’ve been away for an eternity—but I know better.  Eternity no longer exists.”
― Ric Simmons, Diary of a Chronic Suicide

“And the difference between nothing mattering and one thing mattering is a big one.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“we need to switch to a system that classifies women as property, initially of their fathers, and later of their husbands.”
― Laura Bates, Men Who Hate Women: From Incels to Pickup Artists: The Truth about Extreme Misogyny and How it Affects Us All