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“When we open our minds too wide, we risk closing them.”
― Romina Russell, Zodiac

“The principle for which we contend is bound to reassert itself, though it may be at another time and in another form.”
― Jefferson Davis

“...so one day my mother sat me down and explained that I couldn't become an explorer because everything in the world had already been discovered. I'd been born in the wrong century, and I felt cheated.”
― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

“If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.”
― Dolly Parton

“I'm going insane. That's the only explanation for any of this. I'm going insane and the men in white coats will be showing up at any moment to tell me this has all been a psychotic delusion. They'll take me away and lock me up, and I'll be free to drool in the corner of my padded cell for the rest of my life without a care in the world. "
"But then you'd never see me again," Caleb reminded her with a wink.
"Really? Can I get that in writing?”
― Mari Mancusi, Scorched

“I think maybe it’s the things we don’t want to talk about that are the things people most want to hear.”
― Julie Murphy, Dumplin'

“It's one of our greatest human flaws: Arrogance. We look up and dare to assume we know, when the universe is unknowable.”
― Romina Russell, Zodiac

“When I were first learning to shoot a rifle, Pa told me that nearly every battle people face is in their heads.”
― Erin Bowman, Vengeance Road

“Seems like I’ve been waiting for you to come around my whole life, Lee. But a man can’t wait forever and stay a man.”
― Rae Carson, Walk on Earth a Stranger

“No point in living a life less ordinary if you don't know what the other side looks like.”
― Adi Alsaid, Never Always Sometimes

“It’s funny how once you like someone, even the unattractive things they do somehow become endearing.”
― Jasmine Warga, My Heart and Other Black Holes

“Depression is like a heaviness that you can’t ever escape. It crushes down on you, making even the smallest things like tying your shoes or chewing on toast seem like a twenty-mile hike uphill. Depression is a part of you; it’s in your bones and your blood.”
― Jasmine Warga, My Heart and Other Black Holes

“Maybe we all have darkness inside of us and some of us are better at dealing with it than others.”
― Jasmine Warga, My Heart and Other Black Holes

“How could someone hurt you so bad but you still wanted to hold him and tell him it was going to be okay?”
― Heather Demetrios, I'll Meet You There

“My movie tastes are more boy meets girl, girl falls in love with boy, and everything’s happy at the end,” I said.”
― Heather Demetrios, I'll Meet You There

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I'll meet you there.”
― Heather Demetrios, I'll Meet You There

“Everyone’s got something. Some people are just better actors than others.”
― Tamara Ireland Stone, Every Last Word

“Let love guide your, heart and everything else will fall into place.”
― Astrid Scholte, Four Dead Queens

“Sometimes failure is the beginning of success”
― Astrid Scholte, Four Dead Queens

“Love is powerful. It's not easy to shut it out once you've let it in.”
― Astrid Scholte, Four Dead Queens

“Good bras are expensive, and you have to wash them extra carefully or you quickly find yourself buying another expensive bra. Don’t get me started on the whole underwire thing. Humanity is a race capable of interstellar travel, and nobody’s invented a bra for girls my size that doesn’t feel like prison. Here is a truth universally acknowledged—taking that thing off at the end of the day is the single greatest feeling in the world.”
― Amie Kaufman

“Know the past, or suffer the future.”
― Amie Kaufman

“Mai tu sarie amn, tu hae'si, tu kii'rna dae.

There is nothing as painful, or as simple, as doing what is right.”
― Amie Kaufman

“Don't let her silence the storm inside you.”
― Kalyn Josephson, The Storm Crow

“Books are very underrated weapons.”
― Kalyn Josephson, The Storm Crow

“I am more than my emotions, more than my depression and fear.”
― Kalyn Josephson, The Storm Crow

“Survival took strength, and I had survived. Moving forward took strength, and I had forged a new path.
Forgiveness took strength, and I would not let Razel take that from me.
I would not become her.”
― Kalyn Josephson, The Crow Rider

“Scars are tallies of the battles you’ve survived.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Lore