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“There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the “Dawn Treader”

“Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off - then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.”
― Herman Melville, Moby Dick

“‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”
― Voltaire

“When death captures me," the boy vowed, "he will feel my fist in his face." (31.26)”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“Life is only precious because it ends, kid.”
― Rick Riordan, The Son of Neptune

“any live man is better than any dead man but no live or dead man is very much better than any other live or dead man”
― William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

“We have two lives... the life we learn with and the life we live after that. Suffering is what brings us towards happiness.”
― Bernard Malamud, The Natural

“Reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event to past, and future, events.”
― Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men

“You don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”
― C.S. Lewis

“I'm not lying.”
― Gary D. Schmidt, Okay for Now

“You know how that feels?”
― Gary D. Schmidt, Okay for Now

“People believe it because people are stupid. Apparently, that’s adequate now.”
― A.S. King, Please Ignore Vera Dietz

“You were merely wishing for the end of pain, the monster said. Your own pain. An end to how it isolated you. It is the most human wish of all.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

“I like being liked. Is that crazy?”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Dad smiled. He put a big arm around me and pulled me to him, kissing the side of my head. “I don’t know what I believe, Hazel. I thought being an adult meant knowing what you believe, but that has not been my experience.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“And the ship went out into the High Sea and passed into the West, until at last on a night of rain Frodo smelled a sweet fragrance on the air and heard the sound of singing that came over the water. And then it seemed to him that as in his dream in the house of Bombadil, the grey rain-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a far green country under a swift sunrise.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

“If you can't go back to your mother's womb, you'd better learn to be a good fighter.”
― Anchee Min, Red Azalea: A Memoir

“Youth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.”
― J.K. Rowling , Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

“Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.”
― Herman Hesse

“There is nobility in the struggle, you don't have to win.”
― Sharon Pollock