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“Let all of life be an unfettered howl. Like the crowd greeting the gladiator. Don't stop to think, don't interrupt the scream, exhale, release life's rapture.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

“Dear God, help me. Do not forget me on this tiny cinder lost in a galaxy that is lost–a heart no bigger than a speck of dust beating, beating against death, against meaninglessness, against guilt, against sorrow.”
― Anne Rice, The Wolf Gift

“You will find that hate can unify people more quickly and more fervently than devotion ever could.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Elantris

“Elantris (Sanderson, Brandon) - Your Highlight on page 74 | Location 1453-1453 | Added on Thursday, March 20, 2014 1:19:01 AM You will find that hate can unify people more quickly and more fervently than devotion ever could.”
― Anonymous

“Elantris (Sanderson, Brandon) - Your Highlight on page 237 | Location 4560-4562 | Added on Friday, March 21, 2014 2:19:28 AM Sometimes we must fall, sometimes we will rise—some must be hurt while others have fortune, for that is the only way we can learn to rely on one another. As one is blessed, it is his privilege to help those whose lives are not as easy. Unity comes from strife,”
― Anonymous

“Warbreaker (Sanderson, Brandon) - Your Highlight on page 255 | Location 4397-4400 | Added on Saturday, March 29, 2014 1:05:24 AM “Oh, I wouldn’t say that. Work, my dear Blushweaver, is like fertilizer.” “It smells?” He smiled. “No, I was thinking that work is like fertilizer in that I’m glad it exists; I just don’t ever want to get stuck in it.”
― Anonymous

“The Fault in Our Stars (John Green) - Your Highlight on Location 372-374 | Added on Tuesday, April 1, 2014 10:18:03 PM Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book. ==========”
― Anonymous

“Warbreaker (Sanderson, Brandon) - Your Highlight on page 259 | Location 4472-4473 | Added on Saturday, March 29, 2014 1:12:39 AM “I positively love people who do as they should. ‘Should’ being defined as whatever I think is best.”
― Anonymous

“You have a reputation. If enough people tell stories about you, we call it fame; but even if it’s just your neighbors, the people in your workplace, or your relatives, stories are being told about you, shaping other people’s judgment of you. We all take part in the process of building up or tearing down reputations. We do it formally sometimes, as with letters of recommendation or employee evaluations. Mostly, though, the process is informal. When others do it, we call it gossip. When we do it, we call it conversation.”
― Anonymous

“Rogues (George R.R. Martin) - Your Highlight on Location 4284-4285 | Added on Thursday, July 3, 2014 12:59:52 PM “I sometimes think that ‘friend’ is just a word I use for all the people I haven’t murdered yet,”
― Anonymous

“You are confusing plumbing and love again.”
― Robin Hobb

“No. This is right. I feel it. I am the Catalyst, and I came to change all things. Prophets become warriors, dragons hunt as wolves.”
― Robin Hobb

“I found myself speaking softly as if I were telling an old tale to a young child. And giving it a happy ending, when all know that tales never end, and the happy ending is but a moment to catch one’s breath before the next disaster.”
― Robin Hobb, Fool's Quest

“All the truth in the world is held in stories.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“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