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“Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“And there it is! Bravo! I knew it was only a matter of time before Byron realized he had an audience. That man is simply incapable of keeping his shirt on when there are spectators. One Christmas Eve, he stripped his shirt off right in the middle of the choir's rendition of Oh Child of Bethlehem. Coincidentally, the next song was Come Let Us Adore Him and the imbecile actually launched into some interpretive dance.”
― Kirt J. Boyd, The Last Stop

“Temeraire said, 'It is very nice how many books there are, indeed. And on so many subjects!”
― Naomi Novik, His Majesty's Dragon

“If you don't like someone's story, write your own.”
― Chinua Achebe

“ 'In our inmost and secret heart, which you ask us to bare to you, we wish to banish them as we were banished, to a cold and lonely house, in the charge of a man who hated us. And we wish them trapped there as we were trapped.'

'You consider that unjust, Serenity?'

'We consider it cruel,' Maia said. 'And we do not think that cruelty is ever just.' ”
― Katherine Addison, The Goblin Emperor

“loyalty must be earned from a man whose dignity has not been assaulted.”
― M.C.A. Hogarth, Thief of Songs

“So he’s got an attitude problem,” Alysha said. “I get that. But he’ll never stop having an attitude problem if we don’t give him the breathing room to stop reacting to years of frustration and bitterness. I got him to come. Now it’s up to all of us to make sure he keeps coming.”
― M.C.A. Hogarth, Who Is Willing