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#1

“Somehow, we'll find it. The balance between whom we wish to be and whom we need to be. But for now, we simply have to be satisfied with who we are.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Hero of Ages

tags: balance, finding-yourself, inspirational, need, satisfaction, truth, want, who-we-are

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#2

“We do our best. We try. And usually, it makes no difference at all.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

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#3

“Vin isn't…like other women."
Tindwyl raised an eyebrow, her voice softening slightly.
"I think that the more women you come to know, Your Majesty, the more you'll find that statement applies to all of them.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension

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#3

“Kelsier watched after him, then did the only rational thing. He ate the bolt he'd taken from the bottom of the stool.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Secret History

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#4

“You get to choose who you are. Legacy, memories of the past, can serve us well. But we cannot let them define us. When heritage becomes a box instead of an inspiration, it has gone too far.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Skyward

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#4

“I have no idea what you just said, child,' Breeze said. 'So I'm simply going to pretend it was coherent, then move on.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

tags: breeze

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#5

“I wonder if my entire life will be a series of moments in which I realize I’m an idiot long after I can actually do anything about it.”
― Sabaa Tahir, A Reaper at the Gates

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#6

“They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

tags: grief, healing, magnus-bane, time, will-herondale

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#7

“Harmony protect us from small-minded men with too much power.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Alloy of Law

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#8

“Sometimes reality comes crashing down on you. Other times reality simply waits, patiently, for you to run out of the energy it takes to deny it.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

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#9

“People will believe anything if it means they can go on with their lives and not have to think too hard about it.”
― Libba Bray, The Diviners

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#10

“I'm a business man," he'd told her. "No more, no less."
"You're a thief, Kaz."
"Isn't that what I just said?”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

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#11

“No Mourners.
No Funerals.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

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#12

“Dear Mal, I haven't heard from you, so I assume you've met and married a volcra and that you're living comfortably on the Shadow Fold, where you have neither light nor paper to write. Or, possibly, your new bride ate both your hands.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone

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#13

“Like calls to like.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone

tags: alina-starkov, the-darkling

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#14

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

tags: greed, greed-of-man, human-beings, humanity, shadow-and-bone, the-grisha-trilogy

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#15

“You know the problem with heroes and saints, Nikolai?” I asked as I closed the book’s cover and headed for the door. “They always end up dead.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

tags: alina-starkov, heroes, nikolai-lantsov, saints

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#16

“The ox feels the yoke, but does the bird feel the weight of its wings?”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

tags: ana-kuya, dream

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#18

“They had an ordinary life, full of ordinary things—if love can ever be called that.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

tags: life, love

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#19

“I'm the Sun Summoner. It gets dark when I say it does.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

tags: alina-starkov, leigh-bardugo, ruin-and-rising

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#20

“Suffering is cheap as clay and twice as common. What matters is what each man makes of it.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

tags: baghra

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#22

“In the end, maybe love just meant longing for something impossibly bright and forever out of reach.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

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#23

“I'd been born with my power; the rest I'd earned.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

tags: alina-starkov

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#24

“Maybe love was superstition, a prayer we said to keep the truth of loneliness at bay. I tilted my head back. The stars looked like they were close together, when really they were millions of miles apart. In the end, maybe love just meant longing for something impossibly bright and forever out of reach.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

tags: alina-starkov

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#25

“When Gansey was polite, it made him powerful. When Adam was polite, he was giving power away.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

tags: adam, gansey, power, raven-boys

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#26

“She recognized the strange happiness that came from loving something without knowing why you did, that strange happiness that was sometimes so big that it felt like sadness.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

tags: blue-sargent, the-raven-boys

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#27

“Is that all?" she whispered.
Gansey closed his eyes. "That's all there is.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

tags: sad

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#28

“There was dishonor, she decided, in accepting someone else’s idea of honor without question.”
― Marie Rutkoski, The Winner's Crime

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#29

“He knew the law of such things: people in brightly lit places cannot see into the dark.”
― Marie Rutkoski, The Winner's Curse

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#30

“That's what war is," Cobb told me. "A bunch of sorry, desperate fools on both sides, just trying to stay alive. That's the part that those stories you love leave out, isn't it? It's always more convenient when you can fight a dragon. Something you don't have to worry you'll start caring about.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Starsight

tags: empathy, inspirational, war

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