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“We learn from failure, not from success!”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“There is a reason why all things are as they are.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“There is no anger above the anger of a woman. For her thoughts are more vast than the sea, and her counsels more deep than the great ocean.”
― Jeff Wheeler, The Blight of Muirwood

“The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.”
― Jeff Wheeler, The Blight of Muirwood

“Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.”
― Veronica Roth, Insurgent

“You’re one funny enchilada,”
― M.T. Anderson, Feed

“We Americans,” he said, “are interested only in the consumption of our products. We have no interest in how they were produced, or what happens to them” — he pointed at his daughter — “what happens to them once we discard them, once we throw them away.”
― M.T. Anderson, Feed

“You say you love rain, but you use an umbrella to walk under it. You say you love sun, but you seek shelter when it is shining. You say you love wind, but when it comes you close your windows. So that's why I'm scared when you say you love me.”
― Bob Marely

“Maybe bravery is just enduring. Maybe bravery doesn’t exist. All there is is getting through it.”
― Tracy Sierra, Nightwatching

“Easier to believe a woman’s lying than that bad things happened on your watch. Easier to believe the simplest thing is always correct. And it’s simple to say a woman is crazy.”
― Tracy Sierra, Nightwatching

“Snuffles... snuffed it.”
― L. Andrew Cooper, Alex's Escape

“Why are we writing a book about me when you’re clearly an alien masquerading as a human?” He steps closer, giving me a serious look as he drops a hand to my shoulder. “Are you lonely here? Are they worried about you on your home planet?”
― Rachel Lynn Solomon, Business or Pleasure

“You don’t need to be first, honey,” I say, staring directly at her. I want my daughter to really hear me, to remember these words one day when she’s stopped believing in herself. That day will come. It comes for all of us. And I want her to have the tools to get past that day and any other day like it. Her brow furrows. “First?” “The first to stand in your way. Other people are going to tell you no. They’re going to tell you that you can’t do something, you’re not good enough, you’re not worthy. You don’t need to do that. Don’t add to the noise. Because that’s all it is . . . noise. You be a voice, a voice for yourself.”
― Jeneva Rose, Home Is Where the Bodies Are

“Um”
― Nicole Parker, Faulty