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“I've fought evil, and it was easy: I shot it. It's apathy I can't stand.”
― E.K. Johnston, Queen's Shadow

“Do not let what you think they think of you make you stop and question everything you are.”
― Carrie Fisher, The Princess Diarist

“Gandalf looked at him. My dear Bilbo! he said. Something is the matter with you! You are not the hobbit that you were.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

“You are an idealist," Bonteri said. "That's not a bad thing."
"I know," Padmé said. "I have worked very hard at it.”
― E.K. Johnston, Queen's Shadow

“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
― Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature

“I hadn’t traveled all the way here, relinquishing both my position and what bits of my pride that had survived with me for misplaced commiseration.”
― Rin Chupeco

“May your beards never grow thin!”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

“Ellie scrutinized her memories of Trevor. There were no clues, no warnings, that hinted at his violent death. If lives were books, his final chapter came too soon and belonged to a different genre.”
― Darcie Little Badger, Elatsoe

“one of his general policies in life was never to do anything standing up that could just as easily be done lying down.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“If all women were as frail as men seem to believe, the human race would have died out millennia ago.”
― Michelle Cooper, A Brief History of Montmaray

“She seemed to think reading was some sort of hobby, as opposed to being as necessary as breathing, sleeping, and eating.”
― Michelle Cooper, The FitzOsbornes at War

“Every moment is a gift, from the frivolous to the dire. The taste of sweetgold, and the rough paper of our favorite books. I find a god in these things- which god I cannot say, but I'm grateful to it.”
― Lauren DeStefano, Perfect Ruin

“Maybe, sometimes, wants felt like needs. Because the alternative hurt too bad.”
― Darcie Little Badger, Elatsoe

“Car accidents killed or injured more teens than any other cause, including curses and slippery bathroom floors.”
― Darcie Little Badger, Elatsoe

“In many ways, women are death's natural companions. Every time a woman gives birth, she is creating not only a life, but a death. Samuel Beckett wrote that women "give birth astride of a grave." Mother Nature is indeed a real mother, creating and destroying in a constant loop.”
― Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory

“I kind of wanted someone to rearrange the stars so they spelled out his words. I needed them big and bright, and somewhere I could see then when things felt dark. I love you. And I'm so, so proud.”
― Kiera Cass, The Elite

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that receives it.”
― Edith Wharton

“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
― Mark Twain

“Your lullaby would waken a drunken goblin!”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot

“Friendship plants itself as a small unobtrusive seed; over time, it grows thick roots that wrap around your heart. When a love affair ends, the tree is torn out quickly, the operation painful but clean. Friendship withers quietly, there is always hope of revival. Only after time has passed do you recognise that it is dead, and you are left, for years afterwards, pulling dry brown fibres from your chest.”
― Anna Lyndsey, Girl in the Dark

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

“If I could believe in myself, why not give other improbabilities the benefit of the doubt?”
― David Sedaris, Holidays on Ice

“Good night, chubby baby
I can't rock you no more
I'm sorry, chubby baby
But my arms are getting sore
Sleep tight, chubby baby
And please don't get me wrong
You're a perfect sized baby
So never accept fakey beauty standards or develop unhealthy body issues...
... from this dumb song”
― Brian K. Vaughan, Saga, Volume 8

“Peace? I hate the word as I hate hell and all Montagues.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“Your heart is a party for five thousand nails,’ said Gideon.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Gideon the Ninth

“But Gideon was experiencing one powerful emotion: being sick of everyone’s shit.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Gideon the Ninth

“I'll never be what you are. I'll never walk in your skin. But that's the doom of all parents. And I can tell you that it goes the same way for everyone. We all stumble. We all fail. You always do the same thing: you apologize and change, again and again and again. There'll never be a place where everything is right, but we can try our best to strive towards it. It's the striving that defines us. That makes us different from them.”
― Aliette de Bodard, In the Vanishers’ Palace