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“Nina is everything you say. It’s too much.”
“Mmm,” Inej murmured, taking a sip from her mug. “Maybe you’re just not enough.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“what is stronger than the human heart which shatters over and over and still lives”
― Rupi Kaur

“She said no, and learned how much the word was worth.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.”
― W.H. Auden, The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose, Volume II: 1939-1948

“I want you to see that the sky is filled with stars when the city lights go dark. I want you to know that some flowers bloom in droughts and they're still called miracles.”
― Sol Valeria

“Do not try to be pretty. You weren’t meant to be pretty; you were meant to burn down the earth and graffiti the sky. Don’t let anyone ever simplify you to just “pretty.””
— Things I Wish My Mother Had Taught Me”
― Suzanne Rivard

“It felt as if I had lived all my life inside a flat painting and only now had I stepped into the real world.”
― Rosamund Hodge, Cruel Beauty

“Do not limit the depths of your mind; they guide the widths of your accomplishments.”
― Brittany Copponex

“Durga wore a simple sea-green dress and a lei of lotus flowers. . . “Take this,” it has no special power except that the blooms will not fade, but it will serve a purpose on your voyage. I want you to learn the lesson of the lotus. This flower springs forth from muddy waters. It raises its delicate petals to the sun and perfumes the world while, at the same time, its roots cling to the elemental muck, the very essence of the mortal experience. Without that soil, the flower would wither and die.” She placed the lei over my neck. “Dig down and grow strong roots, my daughter, for you will stretch forth, break out of the waters and find peace on the calm surface at last. You will discover that if you hadn’t stretched, you would have drowned in the deep, never to blossom or share your gift with others.”
― Colleen Houck, Tiger's Quest

“Writing is the process of making my soul tangible on paper.”
― Taylor DeCuir

“I cannot live without books.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“For your penance," the Bishop said finally, "say three rosaries, one for each year of your sinful life, and offer them for the people you have harmed."

"That is not remotely enough," she snapped.

"Do you need also to confess doubts about the power of God to forgive sins?"

"Yes," she admitted after a few moments.

"In that case, for your penance, say only one rosary.”
― Rosamund Hodge, Crimson Bound

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“Halfway kindness is worse than none.”
― Rosamund Hodge, Gilded Ashes

“Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly – they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“By definition, fiction writers lie for a living.”
― Janette Rallison, My Unfair Godmother

“You are the author of your life, so make it a good one.”
― Anonymous

“Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it”
― Sara Shepard, Wanted

“Knowledge is power.”
― Sir Francis Bacon, The History of the Reign of King Henry VII

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“One word
Frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
That word is love.”
― Sophocles

“Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”
― C.S. Lewis

“I am a badass, and I recognize that you, too, are a badass.”
― Cassandra Clare

“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
― Steve Jobs

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

“The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.”
― William Shakespeare

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind. Nor hath love's mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste: And therefore is love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd.”
― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

“Quiet people have the loudest minds.”
― Stephen Hawking

“Do I dare Disturb the universe?”
― T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land, Prufrock and Other Poems

“Let us pick up our books and our pens, they are the most powerful weapons.”
― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban