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"...I don't know how to explain. I only know that my greatest victories have always been surrenders."

"You know, when we played adventurer and adventuress: you were the one who had adventures, I was the one who made them happen."

"All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other. Why is it so important to think the same things all together."

"The individual is not a self-supporting universe. There are times when he comes into contact with other individuals, when he is forced to take cognisance of the existence of other universes beside himself."

"One suffers so much, from the fact that beautiful words don't always mean what they ought to mean."

"Fortunately, we can share our pleasures. We are not always condemned to be happy alone."

"Don't the great tales never end?"

"No, they never end as tales, but the people in them come, and go when their part's ended. Our part will end later - or sooner."

I CAN FINALLY READ ALL OF THE THINGS !!!! I AM FREE!!!!!!

"Fair speech may hide a foul heart."

"You knew you were behaving wrongly and foolishly; and you told yourself so, though you did not listen. But if I had spoken sooner, it would not have lessened your desire, or made it easier to resist. No, the burned hand teaches best. After that advice about fire goes to the heart."

"There are two things a person can do with experiences that are overwhelming. He can forget them, or change them."

"You are bound to the same laws that I am, and there is nothing that you can do to me that my own craziness doesn't do to me smarter and faster and better."

"Beauty is indeed in the eye of the beholder, but not in the sense that it is completely arbitrary and variable from person to person. Rather, beauty lies in the processing experience of the beholder, and experience that is strongly determined by how objective stimulus properties influence perceptual and cognitive fluency."

"Do you think you could compete with my smallest nightmare on its dullest day?"

"It sounds lovely,"
"The distant future always does."

"They are nothing. Vanity, fluff, dandelion seed in the wind, thin vapours of fever. The things that matter happen in the heart. Seen things are sweet, but those unseen are a thousand times more significant. It is the Unseen that counts in Life."

"Oh, I don't know. It's not that easy."

"That's why you have to do it," I said.

"Don't you ever just feel like we're chasing something? Something bigger. I don't know, it's like something that only you and I can see. Like we're running, running, running?"

"Yeah," I said. "We're running alright. Running with scissors."

first midterm is tomorrow agh my nerves!!!

“Light as a swan's feather in my claw you are. The sun shines through you. Indeed I do not think you need me any more: were I to let you fall, you would float upon the wind.”

“I have passed through fire and deep water, since we parted. I have forgotten much that I thought I knew, and learned again much that I had forgotten.”

every sentence in this book is worth quoting