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“I’m not asking you to win. That’s not solely in your control,” Aren said. “I’m asking that you fight to win. Anything less is the acceptance of loss and an admission that you deserve it.”
― Evan Winter, The Rage of Dragons

“Time is the water, Charlie. Life is just the bridge it flows under.”
― Stephen King, Fairy Tale

“Life with a cheat code isn't life. Our existence isn't something to be engineered or optimized for the avoidance of pain. That's what it is to be human - the beauty and the pain, each meaningless without the other.”
― Blake Crouch, Recursion

“How much work we’ll do just to feel something. I don’t think there is anything more human than that.”
― Alison Espach, The Wedding People

“The dead pull the living down.”
― Joe Hill, Heart-Shaped Box

“Folks like to talk about revenge like it’s a righteous thing but it’s just hate in a nicer suit,”
― S.A. Cosby, Razorblade Tears

“When there is love, scars are as pretty as dimples.”
― Stephen King, Fairy Tale

“We all have thoughts that shame us.”
― Angie Kim, Miracle Creek

“I think we all wear armor. I think those who don't are fools, risking the pain of being wounded by the sharp edges of the world, over and over again. But if I've learned anything from those fools, it's that to be vulnerable is a strength most of us fear. It takes courage to let down your armor, to welcome people to see you as you are.”
― Rebecca Ross, Divine Rivals

“The life of a child is about firsts. The life of a parent is about lasts.”
― T.J. Newman, Drowning

“She doesn’t see the point in staying alive only to do all the same things that made her want to die.”
― Alison Espach, The Wedding People

“She is so good at predicting what will happen in books, so bad at predicting what will happen in life. That is why she has always preferred books - because to be alive is so much harder.”
― Alison Espach, The Wedding People

“Phoebe prefers this new way of talking. And maybe this is just one of the really nice things about getting older. Maybe this is the part of her life when she gets to start saying what she means, for better or worse. Because no amount of truth can be worse than the feeling she got after years of hiding from it.”
― Alison Espach, The Wedding People

“No, Phoebe will never be a mother. Phoebe will never know what it’s like to create life inside of her. But there are other ways to create. Other ways to love. Other reasons to live.”
― Alison Espach, The Wedding People

“It’s not easy being angry at your own creation. It’s like being angry at yourself.”
― Alison Espach, The Wedding People

“Fear not the fall, but the life that comes from having never leaped at all.”
― Meagan Brandy, Say You Swear

“I close my eyes, etching every second of this into my memory to the tune of the late-night ocean’s swell. Sighing in exhausted satisfaction, I know I’ll never forget this night. I had no idea just how much I’d come to wish I could…”
― Meagan Brandy, Say You Swear

“A lot of people avoid songs that make them remember pain when they’re drowning in it, but I say let that sucker take you under.”
― Meagan Brandy, Say You Swear

“I know everything feels hopeless to you in this moment, but this is just a moment, and moments pass.”
― Blake Crouch, Recursion

“Is this what you want? To drop yourself into a still-life painting of a memory because life has broken your heart?”
― Blake Crouch, Recursion

“If you were mine, Iris there would be no doubt what position you’d hold in my life. You’d be center. I’d play you at the five.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Long Shot

“She’s not someone you banished with therapy and meds. She is you. You cannot dissociate from her. Until you reconcile that, you won’t find true peace. Until you have compassion for her instead of judgment, you cannot fully heal.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Before I Let Go

“We said till death do us part.”

“Death is tearing us apart.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Before I Let Go

“You do not follow me because I am the strongest. Pax is. You do not follow me because I am the brightest. Mustang is. You follow me because you do not know where you are going. I do.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“How many mothers have prayed to see their sons, their daughters return from war only to realize the war has kept them, the world has poisoned them, and they’ll never be the same?”
― Pierce Brown, Morning Star

“a proper compliment must be reasonable if it is to be believed”
― Evan Winter, The Rage of Dragons

“No, not giving up—accepting. Accepting that you can’t control a wave, so you ride it.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Can't Get Enough

“The way to defeat a chess master was not with greater genius, but by forcing her to play a different game.”
― Fonda Lee, Jade Legacy