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“Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers were revealed. It leads to each other. We become ourselves.”
― Patti Smith, Just Kids

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“You have everything needed for the extravagant journey that is your life.”
― Carlos Castaneda

“In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.”
― Isaac Asimov

“Though [Abraham Lincoln] never would travel to Europe, he went with Shakespeare’s kings to Merry England; he went with Lord Byron poetry to Spain and Portugal. Literature allowed him to transcend his surroundings.”
― Doris Kearns Goodwin

“One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.”
― Stephen Hawking

“All the world's a stage we're going through.”
― Lorrie Moore, Anagrams

“We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

“All I ask is one thing, and I’m asking this particularly of young people: please don’t be cynical. I hate cynicism, for the record, it’s my least favorite quality and it doesn’t lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you’re kind, amazing things will happen.”
― Conan O'Brien

“I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen.”
― A.A. Milne

“She had always found villains more exciting than heroes. They had ambition, passion. They made the stories happen. Villains didn't fear death. No, they wrapped themselves in death like suits of armor! As she inhaled the school's graveyard smell, Agatha felt her blood rush. For like all villains, death didn't scare her. It made her feel alive.”
― Soman Chainani, The School for Good and Evil

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that receives it.”
― Edith Wharton

“What I am
is tired of jam.”
― Russell Hoban

“Comedy is the blues for people who can’t sing.”
― Chris Rock

“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
― Alice Walker

“You might as well answer the door, my child,
the truth is furiously knocking.”
― Lucille Clifton, Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980

“We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“Make love, not war. Unless you’re Loki, in which case: do what you want.”
― Tom Hiddleston

“To die, it's easy. But you have to struggle for life.”
― Art Spiegelman, Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History