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“Most of us find our own voices only after we’ve sounded like a lot of other people.”
― Neil Gaiman

“It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“People are always saying 'talent' when they mean 'practice.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Call Down the Hawk

“every relationship you are in will fail, until one doesn't ”
― Dan Savage

“And if you cannot be wise, pretend to be someone who is wise, and then just behave like they would.”
― Neil Gaiman, Make Good Art

“...and I wrote a book and that means I can do anything”
― Mark Haddon

“Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

“While there may not be a book in every one of us, there is so often a damned good short story.”
― Jeffrey Archer

“Where there is no mathematics, there is no freedom.”
― Edward Frenkel, Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality

“You can't hide from someone who's kissing you, even if you close your eyes.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Wayward Son

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.”
― Neil Gaiman, Make Good Art

“The world isn’t split into good people and Death Eaters.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

“The difference between the poet and the mathematician is that the poet tries to get his head into the heavens while the mathematician tries to get the heavens into his head.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.”
― William Wordsworth

“Swords can only harm those standing right in front of them, while stories determine who will live and who will die in future generations. I”
― Yochi Brandes, The Secret Book of Kings

“Mathematics and poetry are the two ways to drink the beauty of truth.”
― Amit Ray

“My words are unerring tools of
destruction, and I’ve come unequipped with the ability to disarm them.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“While I'm gone," Gansey said, pausing, "dream me the world. Something new for every night.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves

“Writing is a struggle against silence.”
― Carlos Fuentes

“There’s nothing like paperwork to make a man feel oppressed.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Blue Lily, Lily Blue

“You're asking me to define an abstract concept that no one has managed to explain since time began. You sort of sprang it on me," Gansey said. "Why do we breathe air? Because we love air? Because we don't want to suffocate. Why do we eat? Because we don't want to starve. How do I know I love her? Because I can sleep after I talk to her. Why?”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven King

“Casually, out of the view of Ronan, making sure Adam was still sleeping, Gansey dangled his hand between the driver's seat and the door. Palm up, fingers stretched back to Blue.

This was not allowed.

He knew it was not allowed, by rules he himself had set... She would not see the gesture, anyway. She would ignore it if she did. His heart hummed.

Blue touched his fingertips.

Just this--

He pinched her fingers lightly, just for a moment, and then he withdrew his hand and put it back on the wheel. His chest felt warm.

This was not allowed.

Ronan had not seen; Adam was still sleeping. The only casualty was his pulse.

-Page 36 <3”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Blue Lily, Lily Blue

“You is kind. You is smart. You is important.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

“Most people think happiness is about gaining something, but it's not. It's all about getting rid of the darkness you accumulate.”
― Carolyn Crane, Double Cross

“Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

“Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.”
― Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species

“The truth doesn't always set you free; people prefer to believe prettier, neatley wrapped lies”
― Jodi Picoult, Keeping Faith