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“Before need, before love, came trust.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

“Mercy is defined as kindness or forgiveness given to someone who is within your power to punish. To show mercy means to give up retribution, sometimes at the cost of justice.”
― Ilona Andrews, Sweep with Me

“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“In the world it is called Tolerance, but in hell it is called Despair...the sin that believes in nothing, cares for nothing, seeks to know nothing, interferes with nothing, enjoys nothing, hates nothing, finds purpose in nothing, lives for nothing, and remains alive because there is nothing for which it will die.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“Change happens one person at a time.”
― Michelle Obama

“No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.”
― Christian Nestell Bovee

“Kindness is a language the dumb can speak and the deaf can hear and understand.”
― Christian Nestell Bovee

“Having a physical reaction to a lack of book is not unusual.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

“Sometimes, when you live a life of captivity, trapped for so long, freedom becomes a thing to fear.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

“I don’t believe in astrology; I’m a Sagittarius and we’re skeptical.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“Had Martha Foley returned William [James Sidis]'s passion as Margaret [Engemann] did Norbert [Wiener]'s, perhaps the two prodigies would have had more in common in the long run. ... In the life of a prodigy, perhaps more than in the average life, a marriage or a requited love is the greatest single factor that can heal the old childhood wounds. William and Norbert's response to their childhood and teenage rejections and humiliations was to retreat into the painless world of ideas, where successes and satisfactions abounded. A successful love affair could be the key to reentry into the world of feeling, bridging the gap between the cerebral and the emotional lives.”
― Amy Wallace, The Prodigy: A Biography of William James Sidis, America's Greatest Child Prodigy

“In the end, we'll all become stories.”
― Margaret Atwood, Moral Disorder and Other Stories

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