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“Perhaps poetry is another of science's deepest roots: the capacity to see beyond the visible.”
― Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time

“We do not look back, Chaol. It helps no one and nothing to look back. We can only go on.”
There she was, that queen looking out at him, a hint of the ruler she was becoming. And it knocked the breath out of him, because it made him feel so strangely young—when she now seemed so old. “What if we go on,” he said, “only to more pain and despair? What if we go on, only to find a horrible end waiting for us?”
Aelin looked northward, as if she could see all the way to Terrasen. “Then it is not the end.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”
― Oscar Wilde

“We do not look back, Chaol. It helps no one and nothing to look back. We can only go on." ‘What if we go one only to find a horrible end waiting for us?’ "Then it is not the end”
― sarah j mass

“I do not have endless patience," Balekin growls.
"Cultivate it," Cardan says, and with a small bow, he navigates us away from Balekin and Madoc.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“Jesper: “If Pekka Rollins kills us all, I’m going to get Wylan’s ghost to teach my ghost how to play the flute just so that I can annoy the hell out of your ghost.”
Kaz: “I’ll just hire Matthias’ ghost to kick your ghost’s ass.”
Matthias: “My ghost won’t associate with your ghost.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“Kaz leaned back. "What's the easiest way to steal a man's wallet?"
"Knife to the throat?" asked Inej.
"Gun to the back?" said Jesper.
"Poison in his cup?" suggested Nina.
"You're all horrible," said Matthias.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“Please, my darling Inej, treasure of my heart, won’t you do me the honor of acquiring me a new hat?”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“When we get our money, you can burn kruge to keep you warm."
"I'm going to pay someone to burn my kruge for me."
"Why don't you pay someone else to pay someone to burn your kruge for you? That's what the big players do.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“If any of you survive, make sure I have an open casket," Jesper said as he hefted two slender coils of rope over his shoulder and signalled for Wylan to follow him across the roof. "The world deserves a few more moments with this face.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“Jesper knocked his head against the hull and cast his eyes heavenward. “Fine. But if Pekka Rollins kills us all, I’m going to get Wylan’s ghost to teach my ghost how to play the flute just so that I can annoy the hell out of your ghost.”
Brekker’s lips quirked. “I’ll just hire Matthias’ ghost to kick your ghost’s ass.”
“My ghost won’t associate with your ghost,” Matthias said primly, and then wondered if the sea air was rotting his brain.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“Your story is worth telling, you know.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A ​Court of Silver Flames

“The world was beautiful, and she was so grateful to be in it. To be alive, to be here, to see this.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A ​Court of Silver Flames

“The world was beautiful, and she was so grateful to be in it.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A ​Court of Silver Flames

“What is infinite? The universe and the greed of men.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

“someone will remember us
I say
even in another time”
― Sappho, If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho

“but I am not someone who likes to wound
rather I have a quiet mind”
― Sappho, If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho

“I like to think that, the more I stand out of the way, the more Sappho shows through. This is an amiable fantasy (transparency of self) within which most translators labor. If light appears,

'not ruining the eyes (as Sappho says)
but strengthening, nourishing and watering,'
- Aelius Aristides Orations

we undo a bit of cloth.”
― Anne Carson, If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho

“It seems that she knew and loved women as deeply as she did music. Can we leave that matter there? As Gertrude Stein says:

'She ought to be a very happy woman. Now we are able to recognize a photograph. We are able to get what we want.'
-Marry Nettie, Gertrude Stein Writings (1903-1932)”
― Anne Carson, If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho