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“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“Life has no remote....get up and change it yourself!”
― Mark A. Cooper, Operation Einstein

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“He nodded. “Oh, ambition. Yes. She has ambition by the bucket but she wants somebody else to carry the pail.”
― Nathan Lowell, The Wizard's Butler

“Time is
Too Slow for those who Wait,
Too Swift for those who Fear,
Too Long for those who Grieve,
Too Short for those who Rejoice;
But for those who Love,
Time is not.”
― Henry van Dyke, Music and Other Poems

“Happy? Most of the time? Happiness is always a fleeting thing," he said, "It never rests upon anyone as a permanent state, though many of us persist in believing in the foolish idea that if this would just happen or that we would be happy for the rest of our lives. I know moments of happiness just as most other people do. Perhaps I have learned to find it in ways that would pass some people by. I feel the summer heat here at this moment and see the trees and the water and hear that invisible gull overhead. I feel the novelty of having company when I usually come here alone. And this moment brings me happiness.”
― Mary Balogh

“This is who I am, Séraphine. Naked, with blade and blood. I am vengeance. I am hate. I am sin personified. Never mistake me for the hero of this tale, for I am not and shall never be. I am the villain.”
― Elizabeth Hoyt, Duke of Sin

“What were the children doing up there?" "I don't know. Likely same as you. Why did you go as a child?" Isobel felt her cheeks warm. "I was looking for buried treasure." "Did you ever find your treasure?" Julius asked. "I'm still looking." "I'll add 'delusional' to my notes.”
― Sabrina Flynn, The Devil's Teeth

“I can keep them forever this way. Perfect. Not rotting. Not gone. Not like the others who disappear and leave nothing behind.”
― Jack D. Ace, Ghoul Car II: The Midnight Run

“The knife didn’t tremble. It knew what it wanted. Same as the car. Same as me.”
― Jack D. Ace, Ghoul Car II: The Midnight Run

“old-fashioned glass bottles, and everyone knows soda always tastes better in bottles than cans.”
― Nate Bargatze, Big Dumb Eyes: Stories from a Simpler Mind

“I think of myself in the oral tradition—as a troubadour, a village taleteller, the man in the shadows of the campfire. That’s the way I’d like to be remembered—as a storyteller. A good storyteller.”
― Louis L'Amour, Milo Talon: A Novel

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave.”
― Mo Willems, Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs

“People who think they're free in this world just haven't come to the end of their leash yet.”
― Michael Parenti