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“True terror isn’t being scared; it’s not having a choice on the matter.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“You have suffered. You have created suffering. You have killed. But you have also paid. With your life, twice over now, and with your heart, with your mind. You have guided thousands of lost souls. You have saved thousands of lives. You have done good in this world. Which will define you? The good? Or the suffering?”
― Sabaa Tahir, A ​Sky Beyond the Storm

“I was so good at being a kid, and so terrible at being whatever I was now.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“War doesn't determine who's right. War determines who remains.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War

“You are as real as anyone, and your doubts make you more real, not less.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“Sometimes the truth is dangerous… But we should search for it nonetheless.”
― Ruta Sepetys, The Fountains of Silence

“People will seek to use you or destroy you. If you want to live, you must pick a side. So do not shirk from war, child. Do not flinch from suffering. When you hear screaming, run toward it.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Dragon Republic

“I don't care if you danced naked on the roof of the Little Palace with him. I love you, Alina, even the part of you that loved him.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone

“Don't stay in one place too long. It was the only way to stay ahead of the sadness.”
― Rick Riordan, The Lost Hero

“I have become something wonderful, she thought. I have become something terrible. Was she now a goddess or a monster? Perhaps neither. Perhaps both.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War

“I'm sorry it took me so long to see you, Alina. But I see you now.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone

“Sometimes I feel like we might burn down the world to cindery bits, with our love, our rage, and everything in between.”
― Kim Liggett, The Grace Year

“The worst part of being truly alone is you think about all the times you wished that everyone would just leave you be. Then they do, and you are left being, and you turn out to be terrible company.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“i don’t know who needs to hear this, but:  it’s okay if someone doesn’t like you.  it doesn’t mean there’s something wrong with you.  it doesn’t mean there’s something wrong with them.  some kinds of magic just don’t call to each other.”
― Amanda Lovelace, Break Your Glass Slippers

“your art
is not about how many people
like your work
your art
is about
if your heart likes your work
if your soul likes your work
it's about how honest
you are with yourself
and you
must never
trade honesty
for relatability”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“We can heal. Perhaps we can return to that same place we once stood, when we were both young and innocent.”
― Marie Lu, Champion

“Life is a series of choices between wonders.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“i stopped wondering when the next chapter would finally begin,  & i started writing it instead.  —how i got out of my own way.  ”
― Amanda Lovelace, Break Your Glass Slippers

“I'm not like you, Mal. I never really fit in the way you did. I never really belonged anywhere."
"You belonged with me.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone

“don’t worry about all the people out there catching fireflies when you’re out here catching entire galaxies.  —stay focused on your goals.”
― Amanda Lovelace, Break Your Glass Slippers

“fairy godmother says i don’t know if anyone has ever told you this, but: their lack of love for you does not make you any less loveable.”
― Amanda Lovelace, break your glass slippers

“at first, self-love can feel like you’re trying to catch lightning in a bottle—next to impossible. i didn’t believe i could ever hold that much power in my hands, until the day i did. ever since, i’ve become a terrifying storm of a girl who will never settle for anything less than what she deserves.”
― Amanda Lovelace, Break Your Glass Slippers

“there is strength in vulnerability and true courage in accepting who you are.”
― Amanda Lovelace, break your glass slippers

“We never really talked much or even looked at each other, but it didn't matter because we were looking at the same sky together, which is maybe even more intimate than eye contact anyway. I mean, anybody can look at you. It's quite rare to find someone who sees the same world you see.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“fairy godmother says you are limitless. you can have the lipstick. you can have the sword.”
― Amanda Lovelace, break your glass slippers

“Your now is not your forever.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“when you spend
all your time
imagining yourself
in other people's shoes,

your own story
goes unwritten,

& there is nothing
more painful
than that.”
― Amanda Lovelace, Break Your Glass Slippers

“You're both the fire and the water that extinguishes it. You're the narrator, the protagonist, and the sidekick. You're the storyteller and the story told. You are somebody's something, but you are also your you.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“Thoughts are only thoughts.They are not you, you belong to yourself even when your thoughts don't.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“I was beginning to learn that your life is a story told about you, not one that you tell.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down