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“As Mab explains to Will why using magic has to hurt...."Think about guns. If it hurt you to shoot a gun, don't you think people would think harder about when and where and why they did it?”
― Tessa Gratton, Blood Magic

“Deduct the carrots from your pay, you worthless, swampy fool.
from Cavern”
― Phish, Phish - The Story of the Ghost

“Don't be strategic or coy. Strategic and coy are for jackasses. Be brave. Be authentic.”
― Dear Sugar

“Let the wild rumpus start!”
― Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
― Frederick Douglass

“Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.”
― Edward Abbey

“This object that we hold in our hands, a book…that tactile pleasure, it's just not going to go away.”
― Maggie Stiefvater

“This world is wrong. We have to correct it.”
― Sui Ishida, 東京喰種トーキョーグール 3

“أنا أحببتك حقّا

إنّما لست أدري

أنا .. أم أنت الضحيّة ؟”
― أمل دنقل

“American women. Why do you all want to be nearly invisible? Why not have a physical presence in the world? Women should have curves, not angles. ...One should never confuse fashionable with beautiful. ...Eat. Be happy to have curves. A presence.”
― Beth Fantaskey, Jessica's Guide to Dating on the Dark Side

“And, finally, I noticed that a hot flush was spreading over me, and that the look in his eyes was doing more to me than Jesse's kisses had. Dimitri was quiet and distant sometimes, but he also had a dedication and an intensity that I'd never seen in any other person. I wondered how that kind of power and strength translated into…well, sex. I wondered what it'd be like for him to touch me and—shit!
What was I thinking? Was I out of my mind? Embarrassed, I covered my feelings with attitude.
"You see something you like?" I asked.
"Get dressed.”
― Richelle Mead, Vampire Academy

“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“After all, grown-ups always underestimate children. Children never underestimate each other.”
― Robin Stevens, Mistletoe and Murder

“لكني مؤمن بأن الأرواح لا تموت. ومن يعرف أين تذهب الأرواح؟”
― سنان أنطون, يا مريم

“Sometimes in life, a sudden situation, a moment in time, alters your whole life, forever changes the road ahead.”
― Ahmad Ardalan, Baghdad: The Final Gathering

“Life has no remote....get up and change it yourself!”
― Mark A. Cooper, Operation Einstein

“In life you'll meet a lot of jerks. If they hurt you, tell yourself that it's because they're stupid. That will help keep you from reacting to their cruelty. Because there is nothing worse than bitterness and vengeance... Always keep your dignity and be true to yourself.”
― Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood

“Much depends on your attitude. If you are filled with negative judgment and anger, then you will feel separate from other people. You will feel lonely. But if you have an open heart and are filled with trust and friendship, even if you are physically alone, even living a hermit’s life, you will never feel lonely.”
― Desmond Tutu, The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World

“It is harder to crack prejudice than an atom.”
― Albert Einstein

“Everyone has a different way of escaping the dark stillness of their mind.”
― Marie Lu, Warcross

“You remember how Mom had that embroidered pillow? When she got upset, she’d shout into it and no one would hear her. That’s Facebook.”
― Anthony Marra, The Tsar of Love and Techno

“I’m gettin’ tired way past where sleep rests me.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

“At some point on your road you have to turn and start walking back towards yourself. Or the past will pursue you, and bite the nape of your neck, leave you bleeding in the ditch. Better to turn and face it with such weapons as you possess.”
― Hilary Mantel, Beyond Black

“We all love after-the-bomb stories. If we didn't, why would there be so many of them? There's something attractive about all those people being gone, about wandering in a depopulated world, scrounging cans of Campbell's pork and beans, defending one's family from marauders. But some secret part of us thinks it would be good to survive. All those other folks will die. That's what after-the-bomb stories are all about.”
― John Varley

“Maybe it's better to have gotten it right and been happy for one day instead of living a lifetime of wrongs.”
― Adam Silvera, They Both Die at the End

“It doesn’t have to be perfect to be better than a hotbed of rape threats and Nazi memes.”
― Adam Kotsko

“It cannot be stressed enough that there is no certain independent date for any of the archaeological material from earliest Rome or the area round about, and that arguments still rage about the age of almost every major find.”
― Mary Beard, SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

“Life is just a short walk from the cradle to the grave, and it sure behooves us to be kind to one another along the way.”
― Alice Childress

“In a crisis perhaps it is old clichés one clings to, like a child to a parent.”
― Graham Greene, The Human Factor