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“She slept with wolves without fear, for the wolves knew a lion was among them.”
― R.M. Drake

“Find what you love and let it kill you.”
― Charles Bukowski

“So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“Fear isn't so difficult to understand. After all, weren't we all frightened as children? Nothing has changed since Little Red Riding Hood faced the big bad wolf. What frightens us today is exactly the same sort of thing that frightened us yesterday. It's just a different wolf. This fright complex is rooted in every individual.”
― Alfred Hitchcock

“and she always had a way with her brokenness. She would take her pieces and make them beautiful.”
― R.M. Drake

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
― Steve Jobs

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“We loved with a love that was more than love.”
― Edgar Allen Poe

“The wolf is carnivore incarnate and he's as cunning as he is ferocious; once he's had a taste of flesh then nothing else will do.”
― Angela Carter

“Apparently profanity had a way of making men listen.”
― Megan Shepherd, The Madman's Daughter

“Don’t box your children in and tell them that everything is a sin. You’ll produce either rebels, or very boring people.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“I did not die today, so I will not fear death tomorrow.”
― Colleen Oakes, Queen of Hearts

“The gods rule us still. They have come down from the stars. And they are no longer kind.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen

“I never wanted to be saved. I wanted someone to follow me down into the darkness.”
― Leah Raeder, Black Iris