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“You can be noble and brave and beautiful and still find yourself falling.”
― Ava Dellaira, Love Letters to the Dead

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.”
― Raymond Carver

“The past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you.”
― Amy Bloom, Away

“...inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.”
― Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures

“People don't alter history any more than birds alter the sky, they just make brief patterns in it.”
― Terry Pratchett, Mort

“And how shall I think of you?' He considered a moment and then laughed. 'Think of me with my nose in a book!”
― Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

“No. I can survive well enough on my own— if given the proper reading material.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

“Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one.
But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten.”
― Terry Pratchett, Mort

“Sometimes a woman needs a man for company, no matter how useless he is.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Sugar Daddy

“What's the point in having a mind if you don't use it to make judgements?”
― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

“Nunca más volveré a verte, y tu nunca más volverás a ver nada”
― Mathias Malzieu, Maintenant qu'il fait tout le temps nuit sur toi

“The only thing known to go faster than ordinary light is monarchy, according to the philosopher Ly Tin Wheedle. He reasoned like this: you can't have more than one king, and tradition demands that there is no gap between kings, so when a king dies the succession must therefore pass to the heir instantaneously. Presumably, he said, there must be some elementary particles -- kingons, or possibly queons -- that do this job, but of course succession sometimes fails if, in mid-flight, they strike an anti-particle, or republicon. His ambitious plans to use his discovery to send messages, involving the careful torturing of a small king in order to modulate the signal, were never fully expanded because, at that point, the bar closed.”
― Terry Pratchett, Mort

“Tʜᴇʀᴇ's ɴᴏ ᴊᴜsᴛɪᴄᴇ, ᴛʜᴇʀᴇ's ᴊᴜsᴛ ᴍᴇ.

—Death”
― Terry Pratchett, Mort

“Faith means that it doesn't matter what happens. You can trust that somebody is watching. Trust that somebody will make it all right.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Hero of Ages

“There are a lot of human experiences that challenge the limits of our language,”
― Ava Dellaira, Love Letters to the Dead

“Hay una diferencia esencial entre el riesgo que puede arruinarte y el que te permite enfrentar el mundo.”
― Ava Dellaira, Love Letters to the Dead

“let’s be honest: women are still only really valued for two things—their looks and their role as mothers.”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“Sometimes I catch myself trying to remember the last time I had meaningful physical contact with another person, just a hug or a heartfelt squeeze of my hand, and my heart twitches.”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“—Que Dios nos libre de los hombres con un destino dictado por la voluntad divina”
― Ken Follett, La caída de los gigantes

“Why does everything have to be so hard? [Eragon] wondered.

Because, said Saphira, everyone wants to eat, but no one wants to be eaten.”
― Christopher Paolini, Inheritance

“People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.”
― Saul Bellow

“To die, - To sleep, - To sleep!
Perchance to dream: - ay, there's the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause: there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life;”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“Ginger: You know what the greatest tragedy is in the whole world?... It's all the people who never find out what it is they really want to do or what it is they're really good at. It's all the sons who become blacksmiths because their fathers were blacksmiths. It's all the people who could be really fantastic flute players who grow old and die without ever seeing a musical instrument, so they become bad plowmen instead. It's all the people with talents who never even find out. Maybe they are never even born in a time when it's even possible to find out. It's all the people who never get to know what it is that they can really be. It's all the wasted chances.”
― Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures

“Chances are where you find them”
― Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures

“Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it's just another job.”
― Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures

“Every man must die, Jon Snow. But first he must live.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“And any man who must say 'I am king' is no true king at all.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“One must dare to be happy. ”
― Gertrude Stein

“There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.”
― Beatrix Potter