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“As humans, we waste the shit out of our words. It’s sad. We use words like “awesome” and “wonderful” like they’re candy. It was awesome? Really? It inspired awe? It was wonderful? Are you serious? It was full of wonder? You use the word “amazing” to describe a goddamn sandwich at Wendy’s. What’s going to happen on your wedding day, or when your first child is born? How will you describe it? You already wasted “amazing” on a fucking sandwich.”
― Louis C.K.

“I would have come for you. And if I couldn't walk, I'd crawl to you, and no matter how broken we were, we'd fight our way out together-knives drawn, pistols blazing. Because that's what we do. We never stop fighting.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“If you don't know where you are going any road can take you there”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

“Saying 'I notice you're a nerd' is like saying, 'Hey, I notice that you'd rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you'd rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Lindsay Lohan. Why is that?' In fact, it seems to me that most contemporary insults are pretty lame. Even 'lame' is kind of lame. Saying 'You're lame' is like saying 'You walk with a limp.' Yeah, whatever, so does 50 Cent, and he's done all right for himself.”
― John Green

“And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“The most baffling mystery about American democracy is why putting such a brilliant idea into practice seems to attract all the wrong people.”
― David Gustafson

“Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears.
"After all this time?"
"Always," said Snape.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“Find beauty, try to understand, survive.”
― James Sallis, Black Night's Gonna Catch Me Here: New and Selected Poems

“There is no greater thrill in life than to find that you are not only useful, but that you can help, and that your help matters.”
― George Wier, The Last Call

“Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.”
― Mark Twain

“You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“I’ll love you, dear, I’ll love you
Till China and Africa meet,
And the river jumps over the mountain
And the salmon sing in the street”
― W.H. Auden

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― Neil Gaiman

“There are dreamed anguishes that are more real
Than the ones life brings us, there are sensations
Felt only by imagining
Which are more ours than our own life is.
There’s so often a thing which, not existing,
Does exist, exists lingeringly
And lingeringly is ours and us…”
― Fernando Pessoa, Selected Poems

“I am so tired of waiting.
Aren’t you,
for the world to become good
and beautiful and kind?
Let us take a knife
and cut the world in two—
and see what worms are eating
at the rind.”
― Langston Hughes, Good Morning, Revolution: Uncollected Social Protest Writings

“I don't want to know what's going to happen. As frightening as that is in real life, it's a crucial aspect in creativity. Being predictable is boring, and it's also disheartening and usinspiring.”
― Carrie Brownstein, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl

“he wanted the viewers to hear about the glory of the Trump family name. After all, this is the heart of the Fifth Commandment—to make your father’s name great by honoring him in word and deed.”
― David Brody, The Faith of Donald J. Trump: A Spiritual Biography

“Experimentally, silently, I mouth I love you ... No one hears, no one sees, but the tree falls in the forest just the same.”
― David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks

“Did you know that between the two of us, we have free will if and only if I do what you want, and you do what I want.”
― Marcia E. Letaw

“Not only will we have to repent for the sins of bad people; but we also will have to repent for the appalling silence of good people.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“You're too old to be saying to me, as you did recently, that you weren't 'interested in politics'. You're lucky that politics feels optional, something it's safe to ignore. Most people in the world have it forced on them”
― Hari Kunzru, My Revolutions

“Reading brings us unknown friends”
― Honore de Balzac

“You don't necessarily have to do anything once you acknowledge your privilege. You don't have to apologize for it. You need to understand the extent of your privilege, the consequences of your privilege, and remain aware that people who are different from you move through and experience the world in ways you might never know anything about.”
― Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist

“Let me tell you something that goes against popular wisdom. Love is not blind; it just looks in the wrong places.”
― Meena Kandasamy, When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife

“First of all, these are not QUOTES...they are QUOTATIONS”
― Joseph Fountain

“Try to be one of those on whom nothing is lost.”
― Henry James, The art of fiction

“Taking cruelty for strength is the most common mistake of youth. Youth only knows life by the intensity of its own feelings—a continuous explosive fortissimo with a foot on the pedal. Youth knows nothing of that supreme sensitivity, the true sensitivity of the strong that denies cruelty; youth has no inkling of the force with which a barely audible pianissimo can strike under your heart.”
― Oksana Zabuzhko, The Museum of Abandoned Secrets

“The man who walks in the shadow of vengeance is a different man from the man who walks in the light of justice.”
― Graeme Rodaughan, A Subtle Agency

“I am not sure that I could explain in a way you could understand," replied the old man. "We judge life by our own reactions and sensations, and the reactions and sensations of others are often mere incomprehensible theories.”
― J. Jefferson Farjeon, Mystery in White

“To be a baby elephant must be wonderful. Surrounded by a loving family 24 hours a day…. I think it must be how it ought to be, in a perfect world.”
― Daphne Sheldrick