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“If a sky this dark can still be peppered with so much light, maybe this world can be too.”
― Amy Christine Parker, Gated

“It comes down to whether or not you’re ready to die today. I’m not. If the world ends, we can’t fight it, but we can fight one man. We can choose to live this day and every day after it that we have left.”
― Amy Christine Parker, Gated

“Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.”
― George R. R. Martin

“Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness.”
― Italo Calvino

“Life is like a prism. What you see depends on how you turn the glass.”
― Jonathan Kellerman

“To trust someone is to take the greatest risk of all. (180)”
― Jonathan Kellerman, Blood Test

“Why should you believe your eyes? You were given eyes to see with, not to believe with. Your eyes can see the mirage, the hallucination as easily as the actual scenery.”
― Ward Moore, Bring the Jubilee

“Much of what was said did not matter, and that much of what mattered could not be said.”
― Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity

“Maybe some people just aren't meant to be in our lives forever. Maybe some people are just passing through. It's like some people just come through our lives to bring us something: a gift, a blessing, a lesson we need to learn. And that's why they're here. You'll have that gift forever.”
― Danielle Steel, The Gift

“The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.”
― V. S. Naipaul, In a Free State

“When will you learn that there isn't a word for everything?”
― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

“What makes the desert beautiful,' said the little prince, 'is that somewhere it hides a well...”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“Once, poets were magicians. Poets were strong, stronger than warriors or kings — stronger than old hapless gods. And they will be strong once again.”
― Greg Bear

“The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you are finished.”
― Nelson De Mille

“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.”
― William Wordsworth

“Nature is cruel, but we don't have to be.”
― Temple Grandin

“Laughter is man's most distinctive emotional expression.”
― Margaret Mead

“We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.”
― Ray Bradbury

“Don't wait for a light to appear at the end of the tunnel, stride down there and light the bloody thing yourself.”
― Sara Henderson

“There are no happy endings.
Endings are the saddest part,
So just give me a happy middle
And a very happy start.”
― Shel Silverstein, Every Thing on It