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“May all your dreams but one come true, for what is life without a dream?”
― David Gemmell

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“But in the end it's only a passing thing, this shadow; even darkness must pass.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“Get rid of your doubts. Yesterday is dead. Past mistakes are like smoke in the breeze.”
― David Gemmell, Legend

“I caught a pebble in the moonlight.”
― David Gemmell, Waylander

“You have to decide if the relationship is worth salvaging. Make a list of the good stuff, then made a list of the bad stuff. If one outweighs the other, then you know what you gotta do. Trust me, that method hasn't failed me yet. . . . What if the good doesn't outweigh the bad? . . . Then let her go. And if you keep her in your life and she keeps doing the bad, let her go.”
― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give

“We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

“Surprising what you can dig out of books if you read long enough, isn't it?”
― Robert Jordan

“There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.”
― Frank Herbert

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams.”
― H.G. Wells

“Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.”
― Alex Haley

“There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.”
― Beatrix Potter

“Life is just action and reaction, rationalizations are added later on”
― Ibn-e-Safi

“It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

“The dead know everything but they don't give a damn.”
― Joanne Harris, Runemarks

“because nerds like us are allowed to be unironically enthusiastic about stuff. Nerds are allowed to love stuff, like jump-up-and-down-in-the-chair-can’t-control-yourself love it. Hank, when people call people nerds, mostly what they’re saying is ‘you like stuff.’ Which is just not a good insult at all. Like, ‘you are too enthusiastic about the miracle of human consciousness’.”
― John Green

“A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.”
― Henry Miller, The Books in My Life

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

“We read to know we're not alone.”
― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play

“Books. Cats. Life is Good.”
― Edward Gorey

“Books fall open, you fall in.”
― David T.W. McCord

“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”
― Maya Angelou

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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

“Beauty and ingenuity beat perfection hands down, every time.”
― Nalo Hopkinson, Sister Mine

“We can only die in the future, I thought; right now we are always alive.”
― Amy Hempel, The Collected Stories

“Sometimes when you're in a dark place you think you've been buried, but you've actually been planted.”
― Christine Caine