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“He smiled at that, and then his gaze shifted to a spot over my shoulder and it faded. 'These doubts wouldn’t have anything to do with the company you’re keeping of late, would they?'
I didn’t get a chance to answer before the shop door was thrown open and a furious war mage stomped in. Pritkin spotted me and his eyes narrowed.
'You shaved my legs?!'
Mircea looked at me and folded his arms across his chest. I looked from one unhappy face to the other and suddenly remembered that I had somewhere else to be.”
― Karen Chance, Curse the Dawn

“Then you must be willing to fight," Mircea responded. "Life is not a gift, Raphael; it's a challenge. Rise to it!”
― Karen Chance, Curse the Dawn

“On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.”
― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”
― Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter

“The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

“If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin.”
― Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
― Anaïs Nin

“You can't make yourself feel positive, but you can choose how to act, and if you choose right, it builds your confidence.”
― Julien Smith, The Flinch

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
― Steve Martin

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
― Albert Einstein

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
― Anne Frank, Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex: A Collection of Her Short Stories, Fables, and Lesser-Known Writings

“First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you.”
― Nicholas Klein

“When someone shows you who they are believe them the first time.”
― Maya Angelou

“I cannot live without books.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King

“Who said nights were for sleep?”
― Marilyn Monroe

“Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever.”
― Walt Disney

“Where there is love there is life.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“I am not young enough to know everything.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Always do what you are afraid to do.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
― Voltaire

“To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.”
― Arundhati Roy, The Cost of Living

“It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince