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“Every moment is a fresh start”
― T.S. Eliot

“Let us cultivate our garden.”
― Voltaire, Candide

“...things get broken, and sometimes they get repaired, and in most cases, you realize that no matter what gets damaged, life rearranges itself to compensate for your loss, sometimes wonderfully.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

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

“Would you walk away from Omelas?”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

“Most of all, I hate you because I think of you. Often. It's disgusting, and I can't stop.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“I want to tell you so many lies”
― Holly Black , The Wicked King

“This is Annabeth,” Jason said. “Uh, normally she doesn't judo-flip people.”
― Rick Riordan, The Mark of Athena

“When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“I need you, the reader, to imagine us, for we don't really exist if you don't.”
― Nabokov Vladimi, Lolita

“And the rest is rust and stardust.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“Are all Grisha so immodest?” he asked defensively.
“Boys and girls train side by side together in the First and Second Armies. There isn’t a lot of room for maidenly blushing.”
“It’s not natural for women to fight.”
“It’s not natural for someone to be as stupid as he is tall, and yet there you stand. Did you really swim all those miles just to die in this hut?”
“It’s a lodge, and you don’t know that we swam miles.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“Tell the sun and stars hello for me.”
― Rick Riordan, The House of Hades

“I am never, ever, going to make things easy for you, Seaweed Brain. Get used to it.”
― Rick Riordan

“Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
― Rumi

“Ya Olduğun Gibi Görün Ya Göründüğün Gibi Ol”
― Mevlana (Rumi)

“She raised an eyebrow. "You got something to say to me, Seaweed Brain?"

You'd probably kick my butt."

You know I'd kick your butt."

I brushed the cake off my hands. "When I was at the River Styx, turning invulnerable . . . Nico said I had to concentrate on one thing that kept me anchored to the world, that made me want to stay mortal."

Annabeth kept her eyes on the horizon. "Yeah?"

Then up on Olympus," I said, "when they wanted to make me a god and stuff, I kept thinking-"

Oh, you so wanted to."

Well, maybe a little. But I didn't, because I thought-I didn't want things to stay the same for eternity, because things could always get better. And I was thinking . . ." My throat felt really dry.

Anyone in particular?" Annabeth asked, her voice soft.

I looked over and saw that she was trying not to smile.

You're laughing at me," I complained.

I am not!"

You are so not making this easy."

Then she laughed for real, and she put her hands
around my neck. "I am never, ever going to make things easy for you, Seaweed Brain. Get used to it.”
― Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian

“The completeness of a child is the most fragile and most powerful thing in the world. A child’s confidence is the world’s wonder.”
― Teju Cole, Every Day is for the Thief

“If there were no emptiness, there would be no life.”
― Margaret Atwood, Dearly

“Do unto others 20% better than you would expect them to do unto you, to correct for subjective error.”
― Linus Pauling

“Fight for the things that you care about. But do it in a way that will lead others to join you.”
― Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“Things might be theoretical, that was true. I may be imagining it all, but it still hurt. It was still sad to lose someone you loved.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Death in Her Hands