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    Sarah J. Maas
    “We do not look back, Chaol. It helps no one and nothing to look back. We can only go on.”
    There she was, that queen looking out at him, a hint of the ruler she was becoming. And it knocked the breath out of him, because it made him feel so strangely young—when she now seemed so old. “What if we go on,” he said, “only to more pain and despair? What if we go on, only to find a horrible end waiting for us?”
    Aelin looked northward, as if she could see all the way to Terrasen. “Then it is not the end.”
    ― Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows
    tags: aelin-galathynius, chaol-westfall, pg521
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    Marie-Helene Bertino
    “What we love, we mention."
    "Then I must love you because I mention you all the time.”
    ― Marie-Helene Bertino
    tags: love, romance
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    Sarah J. Maas
    “Apparently, a woman can only go so long without a sword between her hands.”
    ― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass
    tags: calaena, celaena-sardothien, innuendo, sword
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    Sarah J. Maas
    “What's the point in having a mind if you don't use it to make judgements?”
    ― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass
    tags: clever, judgamental, judgement, mind
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    Sarah J. Maas
    “The quickest way to a man's heart is through the fourth and fifth ribs.”
    ― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury
    tags: acomaf, acotar, court-of-mist-and-fury, queen-maas, sarah-j-maas
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    Sarah J. Maas
    “Because I am lost," she whispered onto the earth. "And I do not know the way.”
    ― Sarah J. Maas, Heir of Fire
    tags: celaena-sardothien
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    Sarah J. Maas
    “To whatever end.”
    ― Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows
    tags: aelin-ashryver-galathynius, fae, queen-of-terrasen, rowaelin, rowan-whitethorn, to-whatever-end
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  • #8
    David Mitchell
    “My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?”
    ― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
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    David Mitchell
    “Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.”
    ― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
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    David Mitchell
    “Fantasy. Lunacy.
    All revolutions are, until they happen, then they are historical inevitabilities.”
    ― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
    tags: fantasy, history, revolution
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    Sequoia Nagamatsu
    “Opportunities are like little seeds floating in the wind. Your life is there. Some people have a big net to collect them all. Other people need to pray that the right seeds, the best ones, make their way to them with just enough bad ones to appreciate the good.”
    ― Sequoia Nagamatsu, How High We Go in the Dark
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    Sequoia Nagamatsu
    “Hope, love, ingenuity. Possibility is more than what runs through our veins, little one.”
    ― Sequoia Nagamatsu, How High We Go in the Dark
    tags: hope, life, possibility
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
    "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: adventuring, death, time
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    Emily St. John Mandel
    “It is sometimes necessary to break everything.”
    ― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven
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    Madeline Miller
    “They do not care if you are good. They barely care if you are wicked. The only thing that makes them listen is power.”
    ― Madeline Miller, Circe
    tags: circe, good, madeline-miller, power, wicked
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    Madeline Miller
    “I thought: I cannot bear this world a moment longer. Then, child, make another.”
    ― Madeline Miller, Circe
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    Madeline Miller
    “Timidity creates nothing.”
    ― Madeline Miller, Circe
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  • #18
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “Let everything happen to you
    Beauty and terror
    Just keep going
    No feeling is final”
    ― Rainer Maria Rilke
    tags: enjoy-life, fearlessness, live-in-the-moment
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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “Love me, because love doesn't exist, and I have tried everything that does.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated
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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
    tags: life
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    Ian McEwan
    “The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse.”
    ― Ian McEwan, Atonement
    tags: daydreaming, dreams, fantasy, imagination, life
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    Taylor Jenkins Reid
    “Sometimes reality comes crashing down on you. Other times reality simply waits, patiently, for you to run out of the energy it takes to deny it.”
    ― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
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    Taylor Jenkins Reid
    “No one is just a victim or a victor. Everyone is somewhere in between. People who go around casting themselves as one or the other are not only kidding themselves, but they’re also painfully unoriginal.”
    ― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
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    Taylor Jenkins Reid
    “I think being yourself—your true, entire self—is always going to feel like you’re swimming upstream.”

    “Yeah,” she said. “But if the last few years with you have been any indication, I think it also feels like taking your bra off at the end of the day.”
    ― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
    tags: true-self
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    Taylor Jenkins Reid
    “Don't count yourself out this early, Daisy. You're all sorts of things you don't even know yet.”
    ― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six
    tags: inspirational
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    Taylor Jenkins Reid
    “Passion is...it's fire. And fire is great, man. But we're made of water. Water is how we keep living. Water is what we need to survive. My family was my water. I picked water. I'll pick water every time.”
    ― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six
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    Adrian Tchaikovsky
    “How much worse to think yourself wise, and still be as ignorant as one who knew themselves a fool?”
    ― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Elder Race
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    Adrian Tchaikovsky
    “Know thyself, the wise man wrote, and yet I know myself, none better, and the knowledge gives me no power.”
    ― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Elder Race
    tags: knowledge-of-self, self-awareness, wisdom
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    M.L. Rio
    “How tremendous the agony of unmade decisions.”
    ― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains
    tags: decisions
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    M.L. Rio
    “You can justify anything if you do it poetically enough.”
    ― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains
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