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“He saw it in her eyes. The anguish, the frustration. The terrible nothing that clawed inside and sought to smother her. She knew. It was there, inside. She had been broken.

Then she smiled. Oh, storms. She smiled anyway.

It was the single most beautiful thing he’d seen in his entire life.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance

“He had a dashing smile. It nearly dashed right off his face.”
― Shannon Hale, Austenland

“True love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops.”
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride

“To me, the one basking in infinite glory is you; the one fallen from grace is also you. What matters is you, not the state of you.”
― Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù, Heaven Official's Blessing: Tian Guan Ci Fu (Novel) Vol. 4

“If you don't know the meaning to your life, then make me that meaning, and use me as the reason to live.”
― Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù, Heaven Official's Blessing

“Body in the abyss, heart in paradise.”

[...] If the crown prince were to see the remnants of those words, he would probably be the first one to rush to destroy what was left.

The person who had said those words had personally proven that when the body is in the abyss, the heart could not be in paradise.

He ascended to the heavens quickly, but his fall from grace was even faster.”
― Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù, 天官赐福 [Tiān Guān Cì Fú]

“But... you won't... be able to rest in peace like this?" Hua Cheng answered, "I pray to never rest in peace.”
― Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù

“At the base of the immense pillar, tiny Babylon was in shadow. Then the darkness climbed the tower, like a canopy unfurling upward. It moved slowly enough that Hillalum felt he could count the moments passing, but then it grew faster as it approached, until it raced past them faster than he could blink, and they were in twilight... For the first time, he knew night for what it was: the shadow of the earth itself, cast against the sky.”
― Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others

“He described stars as thin as air, immense clouds of glowing gas; told us about the prestars of the Orion Nebula, just now blossoming into loose knots of warm gas that might in a million years be suns.”
― Frederick Pohl, Gateway