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“Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“we must give thanks for this day and for every day, no matter how flawed. Bow your heads, give your gratitude to God, and have faith in him, and in a better tomorrow.”
― Mark T. Sullivan, Beneath a Scarlet Sky

“When you run out of hope, everything is backwards. Your heart wants the opposite of what it needs.”
― Andrew Peterson, The Warden and the Wolf King

“Of all the monsters out there, it’s the self-righteous ones, the ones who think they’re beyond blame, that are the most dangerous. Because if they have enough power, if they’re loud enough or smooth enough, their voice can convince others, too.”
― Claire Amarti, The Silent Daughter

“To lack feeling is to be dead, but to act on every feeling is to be a child.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

“Fretting about time’s passing will not slow it down one whit.”
― Sharon Kay Penman, Here be Dragons

“few men acted even for their own good, let alone the good of others.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

“I was like a sparrow in a storm, unable to find a safe branch to cling to. Unable to control the tumbling motion of my flight.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

“words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

“If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet introspection.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“When a man is certain that he knows God’s will, and is resolved to do it regardless of the cost, he is the most dangerous person in the world.”
― Ken Follett, A Column of Fire

“forward. “The trouble with truth is that people are unwilling to be convinced that they have been deceived. It impugns their judgment.”
― Jeff Wheeler, Fireblood

“The trouble with truth is that people are unwilling to be convinced that they have been deceived. It impugns their judgment. It stains their character. People love themselves above all.”
― Jeff Wheeler, Fireblood

“Forever. That’s how long we’ll have an empty place at the table.”
― Kristin Hannah, Winter Garden

“And maybe that was how it was supposed to be, how life unfolded when you lived it long enough. Joy and sadness were part of the package; the trick, perhaps, was to let yourself feel all of it, but to hold on to the joy just a little more tightly because you never knew when a strong heart could just give out.”
― Kristin Hannah, Winter Garden

“As if it, too, had been freed from those inner restraints he’d loosened slightly last night. What he’d opened up, revealed to her. A sort of freedom, that letting go.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

“Knew it would take time, time and distance, to heal the internal wounds. If they could ever really heal at all. But he’d work with her, help in whatever way he could. And if she never returned to who she had been before this, he would not love her any less.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

“But now he finally had a friend, and that made all the difference in the world.”
― M.L. Spencer, Dragon Mage

“That's the key isn't it? To know the darkness will always remain, but how you choose to face it, handle it...that's the important part. To not let it consume. To focus upon the good, the things that fill you with wonder." She gestured to the stars zooming past. "The struggle with that darkness is worth it, just to see such things.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A ​Court of Silver Flames

“she could escape at any time, as long as she had a book to read.”
― Angelina J. Steffort, Shadow Rule

“The educational system in the United States is broken and we know it. Why, then, do so many homeschool parents keep using it as a frame of reference? Why are we letting it beat us down, and why would we let that same broken system steal our kids’ childhoods and—in some cases—even our relationships with our children?”
― Durenda Wilson, The Unhurried Homeschooler: A Simple, Mercifully Short Book on Homeschooling

“My children and I attended a homeschooling Secret Santa activity. It was cheap, and they were able to pick a simple gift for each member of the family.”
― Christine Owens, Relaxed Homeschooling: How to Unlock the Secrets in Books and Life's Hidden Curriculum

“I have no special talent.
I am only passionately curious.” -Albert Einstein”
― Christine Owens, Relaxed Homeschooling: How to Unlock the Secrets in Books and Life's Hidden Curriculum

“HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO TELL YOU: PRIDE IS UNBECOMING TO HUMANS. ONLY CATS AND DRAGONS DO IT JUSTICE.”
― Lydia Sherrer, Love, Lies, and Hocus Pocus Odyssey

“There is no shame in being who you are, where you are, right here and now. All that matters is your efforts each day to improve. We have a problem to solve, so lay your anxieties aside and focus on the reality you face in this present moment, not on the ideal scenario you had hoped for.”
― Lydia Sherrer, Love, Lies, and Hocus Pocus Odyssey

“And as she wasn’t the sort to tolerate an unhappy life, then she would simply have to make certain that hers was anything but.”
― Julia Quinn, To Sir Phillip, With Love

“It is a curse of human nature that we are inclined to believe things that we wish to be true.”
― Andrea Penrose, Murder at the Merton Library

“It’s forces like love and family which bring the light that helps banish the darkness.”
― Andrea Penrose, Murder at the Merton Library