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“The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.”
― Henry Miller

“The world is a possibility if only you'll discover it.”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

“When the enemy has no face, society will invent one.”
― Susan Faludi

“The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.”
― Daniel Defoe

“And how could I be sure that other people were not doing the same—playing the game to be accepted but suspecting all the time that they were different?”
― Graeme Simsion, The Rosie Project

“Asperger's isn't a fault. It's a variant. It's potentially a major advantage.”
― Graeme Simsion, The Rosie Project

“There was so much bullshit flying around that our flies were confused.”
― Alessandra Torre, Hollywood Dirt

“Only a psychopath would ever think of doing these things, only a psychopath would dream of abusing other people in such a way, only a psychopath would treat people as less than human just for money. The shocking truth is, even though they now have most if not all of the money, they want still more, they want all of the money that you have left in your pockets, they want it all because they have no empathy with other people, with other creatures, they have no feeling for the world which they exploit, they have no love or sense of being or belonging for their souls are dead, dead to all things but greed and a desire to rule over others.”
― Arun D. Ellis, Corpalism

“I want to feel that again. I want to remember what it feels like to love someone like that. And not just anyone. I want to know what it feels like to love Charlie.”
― Colleen Hoover, Never Never

“Before, when I looked at her, she was just the girl who as experiencing this weird phenomenon with me. Now when I look at her, she's the girl I've apparently made love to for a while. The girl I apparently still love. I just wish I could remember what it's supposed to feel like.”
― Colleen Hoover, Never Never

“Everything about her is captivating, like the aftermath of a storm. People aren’t supposed to get pleasure out of the destruction Mother Nature is capable of, but we want to stare anyway. Charlie is the devastation left in the wake of a tornado.”
― Colleen Hoover, Never Never

“To embrace love, we risk heartbreak. To resist love, we risk emptiness.”
― Jennifer Lane, Aced

“But as long as you remember what you have seen, then nothing is gone. As long as you remember, it is part of this story we have together.”
― Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony

“If you don't like the hand that fate's dealt you, fight for a new one.”
― Masashi Kishimoto

“I myself have never enjoyed anything more than writing. I love to live in that world.”
― Joss Whedon

“Everything I do in its essence is about helplessness. That's the story I want to tell all the time. It's the story I wanted to live - somebody who appears to be, or is, weak becoming stronger.”
― Joss Whedon

“Whatever makes you weird, is probably your greatest asset.”
― Joss Whedon

“You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.”
― John Bunyan

“I love book books, real books, books with spines and heart, dust jackets, books that smell of books. Take the frame from a painting and you have a painting, not art. Take the pages from a book and print them on a screen and you have the ghost of a book. Not a book.”
― Chloe Thurlow, Katie in Love

“Love enters us like a vague ailment. Your head spins. Your underarms tingle. Love hurts and love has consequences: marriage, babies, separation, longing, human complications.”
― Chloe Thurlow

“When you lose yourself in a book the hours grow wings and fly.”
― Chloe Thurlow, The Fifty Shades of Grey Phenomena

“Chocolate fends off all kinds of nasty stuff. And if you get hungry while warding off evil, you have a snack. It's multipurpose equipment.”
― Jim Butcher, Blood Rites

“Love is another kind of power, which shouldn't surprise you. Magic comes from emotions, among other things. And when two people are together, in that intimacy, when they really, selflessly love each other it changes them both. It lingers on in the energy of their lives, even when they are apart.”
― Jim Butcher, Blood Rites

“Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.”
― Charlaine Harris

“I run. I kick. I punch. I listen. I write. I give.
I live.
Stars above, I live.”
― Heather Lyons, The Deep End of the Sea

“We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Translations from the Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke

“We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It's easy to say "It's not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem." Then there are those who see the need and respond. I consider those people my heroes.”
― Fred Rogers

“There have been those who have actually said they envy me, though mostly strangers, and I doubt you’d be that short-sighted or self-absorbed. This is way more freedom than anyone should ever desire, and carries way more baggage than “freedom” can ever sustain. This is more like “desperate flight,” and another name I have for myself is “The Ghost Rider.” I’m a ghost, I carry a few ghosts with me, and I’m riding through a world that isn’t quite real. But I’m okay as long as I keep moving . . .”
― Neil Peart, Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road

“My heart's made of gold
My soul is pure steel
Loved ones shall rise
Enemies will kneel
I soothe with water, attack with fire
For I am the master of my own empire.”
― Sarah Brownlee

“As human beings we are divided into two categories. Those who make a difference and those whose lives are made different by those who fight for change. If you're part of the former then you better be prepared for a long hard road. People will fight you, condemn you, judge you and scoff at you; the majority will applaud the status quo but remember that it's the minority who change the rules and, in doing so, progress mankind towards its penultimate goal: a world where we reign in either good or evil. Choose your side.”
― Sarah Brownlee