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“The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.”
― Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
― Charles W. Eliot

“Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.”
― George Sand, Letters of George Sand

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

“Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.”
― Margaret Mitchell

“But he who dares not grasp the thorn
Should never crave the rose.”
― Anne Bronte

“It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld

“You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.”
― George Burns

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
― Frederick Douglass

“Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
― Roald Dahl

“Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.”
― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

“You have to know what you stand for, not just what you stand against.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

“Ever had a woman say no to you, Dmitri?”

“Once.” He turned the corner with a smile that made her want to cup his face, trace those beautiful lips with her own. “I married her.”
― Nalini Singh, Archangel's Blade

“Honor?”
“Yes.”
“I’m going to do things to you now that a good girl definitely shouldn’t let a man do to her.”
― Nalini Singh, Archangel's Blade

“The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.”
― John Berger, Keeping a Rendezvous: Essays

“It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

“Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”
― L.M. Montgomery

“When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

“Santa Claus has already been here and everything. Want to see what he brought for you?"

"Is it a big present?"

"Very big."

"With a big red bow on it?”
― Lara Adrian, Darker After Midnight

“Used titanium hunting knife: sixty-three dollars.
Value: priceless.”
― Lara Adrian, Darker After Midnight

“It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.”
― Lois Lowry

“Sometimes goodness doesn't tell everything it knows. Sometimes goodness waits for the appropriate time and does the best it can with what it has.”
― Sylvain Reynard, Gabriel's Inferno

“Why not think that sometimes—just sometimes—you can overcome evil with silence? And let people hear their hatefulness in their own ears, without distraction. Maybe goodness is enough to expose evil for what it really is, sometimes.”
― Sylvain Reynard, Gabriel's Inferno

“When I am an old man and I can remember nothing else, I will remember this moment. The first time my eyes beheld an angel in the flesh. “I will remember your body and your eyes, your beautiful face and breasts, your curves and this.” He traced his hand around her navel before dragging it lightly to the top of her lower curls. “I will remember your scent and your touch and how it felt to love you. But most of all, I will remember how it felt to gaze at true beauty, both inside and out. For you are fair, my beloved, in soul and in body, generous of spirit and generous of heart. And I will never see anything this side of heaven more beautiful tham you”
― Sylvain Reynard, Gabriel's Inferno

“You blossom under kindness, don't you? Like a rose.”
― Sylvain Reynard, Gabriel's Inferno

“Being without you, Julianne, is like enduring an endless night without stars.”
― Sylvain Reynard, Gabriel's Inferno