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“There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

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

“You convinced yourselves we're just a bunch of regular lads who got a bad break in life. Anything else would have cracked your dream open and made you face reality. Illusion is easy. Illusion is the loser's way out. Your way. ”
― Peter F. Hamilton, The Reality Dysfunction

“Sometimes you have to do what’s wrong in order to do what’s right.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, The Dreaming Void

“To one side were the windows, looking out over the city. Oceans of people passed, in the spaces between the neon and the streetlight. Towers of steel and glass, lighted windows, a universe in each one. People living their lives, side by side, yet so far from each other. Lin’s line of sight was the halo-billboard of the girl in a red dress, twirling it, smiling and mouthing the words: The Chinese Dream is my dream.”
― T.R. Napper, 36 Streets

“The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

“Life before Death.
Strength before Weakness.
Journey before Destination.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

“You see, that is the sad, sorry, terrible thing about sarcasm.

It's really funny.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians

“I've always envied people who sleep easily. Their brains must be cleaner, the floorboards of the skull well swept, all the little monsters closed up in a steamer trunk at the foot of the bed.”
― David Benioff, City of Thieves

“If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.”
― Banksy

“People who seek answers are often not looking for truth.”
― Jonathan Renshaw, Dawn of Wonder

“Understanding a society means understanding the whole society, not just the part that dresses well.”
― Jonathan Renshaw, Dawn of Wonder

“Grief never leaves, but life layers itself on top of the pain”
― Claire North, Notes from the Burning Age

“And the air was full of Thoughts and Things to Say. But at times like these, only the Small Things are ever said. Big Things lurk unsaid inside.”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

“However much you feed a wolf, it always looks to the forest. We are all wolves of the dense forest of Eternity.”
― Marina Tsvetaeva

“Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it- memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey.”
― Tad Williams

“Can you love someone you don't trust?"

"Absolutely," he said. "I have a sister I wouldn't lend two copper lengths if I wanted them back. The problem with loving someone you don't trust is finding the right distance.”
― Daniel Abraham, A Shadow in Summer

“Sometimes the hand pulls the puppet, sometimes the puppet pulls the hand, but the string runs both ways.”
― Daniel Abraham, A Shadow in Summer