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“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
― Mark Twain

“In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”
― Jane Austen, Pride And Prejudice

“The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

“The measure of a man is what he does when he has power.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“I realized I was afraid of living without him. How is it you have the right to destroy my life, I wanted to demand of him, but I’m not allowed a say in yours?
But I had promised.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You

“The same sages also wrote that violence is the habit of the weak, the impotent and the fool.”
― Janny Wurts, The Curse of the Mistwraith

“Show me a hero and I’ll show you a man enslaved by his competence.”
― Janny Wurts, The Curse of the Mistwraith

“The past has passed. Grudges are a poison better ignored and forgotten.

- Moroda”
― L.L. McNeil, Moroda

“If you have not confronted true horrors, understood evil, suffered hopelessness and despair, found faith, and made yourself completely accountable for your own choices, actions and outcomes, then I can guarantee that any acceptance you pretend to have will be as brittle and temporary as a snowball in the middle of summer.”
― Graeme Rodaughan, The Crane War