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“I have to go on a journey of self-discovery.” “Where do you think you’ll go?” “I have no idea.”
― E. Ayers, Christmas on Main Street

“You don’t choose who you fall in love with, do you? And once you do fall in love—that obsessive sort of love, that all-consuming love, where two people can’t stand to be apart from each other for even a moment—how are you supposed to let a love like that pass you by?”
― Jordan Belfort, The Wolf of Wall Street

“had sold his soul, and that is something you can never repurchase at any price.”
― Robert M. Edsel, The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, And The Greatest Treasure Hunt In History

“Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Forgive an old man his wanderings, if you would. Minds are like swords, I do fear. The old ones go to rust.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it,”
― George R.R. Martin

“Shattered legs may heal in time, but some betrayals fester and poison the soul.”
― George R.R. Martin

“Roose Bolton, Lord of the Dreadfort, had a small voice, yet when he spoke larger men quieted to listen.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“A craven can be as brave as any man, when there is nothing to fear. And we all do our duty, when there is no cost to it. How easy it seems then, to walk the path of honor. Yet soon or late in every man’s life comes a day when it is not easy, a day when he must choose.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“The man who trusts in spells is dueling with a glass sword.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Fear,” the doctor said, “is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield to it or we fight it, but we cannot meet it halfway.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

“After all, what can a first impression tell us about someone we’ve just met for a minute in the lobby of a hotel? For that matter, what can a first impression tell us about anyone? Why, no more than a chord can tell us about Beethoven, or a brushstroke about Botticelli. By their very nature, human beings are so capricious, so complex, so delightfully contradictory, that they deserve not only our consideration, but our reconsideration—and our unwavering determination to withhold our opinion until we have engaged with them in every possible setting at every possible hour.”
― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow