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  • #1
    Maggie Stiefvater
    “If you can't be unafraid, be afraid and happy.”
    Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven King

  • #2
    Tom Stoppard
    “We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.”
    Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

  • #3
    David Benioff
    “I'll tell you a secret.
    Something they don't teach you in your temple.
    The Gods envy us.
    They envy us because we're mortal, because any moment might be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed.
    You will never be lovelier than you are now.
    We will never be here again.”
    David Benioff

  • #4
    Margaret Atwood
    “All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel.

    All of them?

    Sure, he says. Think about it. There's escaping from the wolves, fighting the wolves, capturing the wolves, taming the wolves. Being thrown to the wolves, or throwing others to the wolves so the wolves will eat them instead of you. Running with the wolf pack. Turning into a wolf. Best of all, turning into the head wolf. No other decent stories exist.”
    Margaret Atwood

  • #5
    Cassandra Clare
    “Whatever you are physically...male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy--all those things matter less than what your heart contains. If you have the soul of a warrior, you are a warrior. All those other things, they are the glass that contains the lamp, but you are the light inside.”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

  • #6
    Caitlyn Siehl
    “When is a monster not a monster? Oh, when you love it.”
    Caitlyn Siehl, Literary Sexts: A Collection of Short & Sexy Love Poems

  • #7
    Mary Oliver
    “to live in this world

    you must be able
    to do three things
    to love what is mortal;
    to hold it

    against your bones knowing
    your own life depends on it;
    and, when the time comes to let it go,
    to let it go”
    Mary Oliver, New and Selected Poems, Volume One

  • #8
    Oscar Wilde
    “The only difference between saints and sinners is that every saint has a past while every sinner has a future. ”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #9
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

  • #10
    Maggie Stiefvater
    “People shouldn't have to earn kindness. They should have to earn cruelty.”
    Maggie Stiefvater, Forever

  • #11
    George Orwell
    “We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.”
    George Orwell, 1984

  • #12
    Kiersten White
    “The price of living seems to always be death."
    Tohin stood, joints popping audibly. "And that is why you become a dealer of death. You feed death as many people as you can to keep it full and content so its eye stays off you.”
    Kiersten White, And I Darken

  • #13
    Patrick Ness
    “There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere in between.”
    Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

  • #14
    Patrick Ness
    “Don't think you haven't lived long enough to have a story to tell.”
    Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

  • #15
    Alfred Tennyson
    “I am half-sick of shadows,' said The Lady of Shalott.”
    Alfred Lord Tennyson, The Lady of Shalott

  • #16
    Margaret Atwood
    “Nolite te bastardes carborundorum. Don't let the bastards grind you down.”
    Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

  • #17
    Erin Morgenstern
    “The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not.”
    Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

  • #18
    Markus Zusak
    “I am haunted by humans.”
    Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

  • #19
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

  • #20
    Charles Bukowski
    “Do you hate people?”

    “I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.”
    Charles Bukowski, Barfly

  • #21
    Hanya Yanagihara
    “Fairness is for happy people, for people who have been lucky enough to have lived a life defined more by certainties than by ambiguities. Right”
    Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

  • #22
    Hanya Yanagihara
    “All the most terrifying ifs involve people. All the good ones do as well.”
    Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

  • #23
    Anthony Trollope
    “What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?...Was ever anything so civil?”
    Anthony Trollope, The Warden

  • #24
    Albert Einstein
    “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #25
    “I am the sea and nobody owns me”
    Pippi Longstocking

  • #26
    Annie Proulx
    “... and if you can't fix it you've got to stand it.”
    E. Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain

  • #27
    George R.R. Martin
    “Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

  • #28
    Casey McQuiston
    “That's the choice. I love him, with all that, because of all that. On purpose. I love him on purpose.”
    Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

  • #29
    Emily Brontë
    “Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living. You said I killed you--haunt me then. The murdered do haunt their murderers. I believe--I know that ghosts have wandered the earth. Be with me always--take any form--drive me mad. Only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! It is unutterable! I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!”
    Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

  • #30
    Robin Hobb
    “Leave the pain behind and let your life be your own again. There is a place where all time is now, and the choices are simple and always your own.

    Wolves have no kings”
    Robin Hobb
    tags: sad



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