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“you can fixate on the past. or you can create a better future. which way is it going to be.”
― Rebecca Coffindaffer, Crownchasers

“WHEN WE SEEK TO RULE ONLY OURSELVES, WE ARE EACH OF US KINGS.”
― Nicholas Eames, Kings of the Wyld

“This day,” said Gabriel, “this moment, is when you step out from the shadow of the past. Today you make your name. Today your legend is born. Come tomorrow, every tale the bards tell will belong to you, because today we save the world!” Clay sighed in relief. There’d been a hammer, after all. Gabriel tore Vellichor from its scabbard and leveled it at the encroaching Horde. “This is not a choice between life and death, but life and immortality! Remain here and die in obscurity, or follow me now and live forever!”
― Nicholas Eames, Kings of the Wyld

“Palindrome—a word, number, phrase, or sequence of symbols or elements whose meaning can be interpreted the same way both forward and in reverse.

We begin as we end; we end as we begin.

That is life.

It's the middle we must hold on to.”
― Astrid Scholte, The Vanishing Deep

“It makes sense that, when the times were desperate enough, when the people were frenzied enough, at a certain point we went past praying to deities and started to build them instead”
― Zoe Hana Mikuta, Gearbreakers

“You should write a book," Matrick suggested.
Kit snorted. "Who wants to read the self-pitying lamentations of an old revenant?"
"There's your title right there," said Ganelon.”
― Nicholas Eames, Kings of the Wyld

“I know grief,” she interrupted, her eyes narrowed. “Gods, do I know grief. You think it wears you down, but no, it turns you into a fortified version of yourself. Although that fortification is often surface level. With the right amount of pressure, at the perfect angle, it can be shattered like a rock.”
― Astrid Scholte, The Vanishing Deep

“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

“There’s no freedom quite like the freedom of being constantly underestimated.”
― Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora

“You can't help being young, but it's past time that you stopped being stupid.”
― Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora

“You get to choose who you are. Legacy, memories of the past, can serve us well. But we cannot let them define us. When heritage becomes a box instead of an inspiration, it has gone too far.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Skyward

“My name's Jean Tannen, and I'm the ambush.”
― Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora

“What, worried I’ll find your secret fetish porn stash and tell everyone about your anime bondage tentacle kink?”
― Samantha Markum, This May End Badly

“True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed.”
― Tom Robbins

“You are a badass. You were one when you came screaming onto this planet and you are one now. The Universe wouldn't have bothered with you otherwise. You can't screw up so majorly that your badassery disappears. It is who you are. It's who you always will be. It's not up for negotiation.”
― Jen Sincero

“We must not cower in the dark because we’re afraid of the spark within us. The answer is not to put out the spark, but to learn to control it.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Skyward

“We are so much more tremendous than what we give ourselves credit for. Except me, of course, I know I am immeasurable.
- Jenny Sindanai”
― Zoe Hana Mikuta, Godslayers

“A name, she thinks, is what makes a person who they are. A name is how they know themself.”
― Nicola Griffith, Spear

“Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody. Everybody has their story to tell.”
― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

“Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself.”
― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

“Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof.”
― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

“You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it.”
― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

“Only when you accept that one day you'll die can you let go, and make the best out of life. And that's the big secret. That's the miracle.”
― Gabriel Bá, Daytripper

“And sometimes we die to prove that we lived.”
― Fábio Moon, Daytripper

“It was never just the idea of you, Avery.” I tried not to feel like the ground was suddenly moving underneath my feet. “You hated the idea of me.” “But not you.” The words were just as sweet, just as painful. “Never you.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Final Gambit

“Don’t lose sight of that.” Wesley paused and then, so much quieter, he said, “Don’t make me lose you.”
― Alexandra Christo, Into the Crooked Place

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

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

“Do not change the parts of yourself that you like to make others comfortable. Do not try to mold yourself to fit the standards someone else has set for us.”
― Adalyn Grace, Belladonna

“Stop worrying about society and playing its game, hoping that you'll be good enough. There is no such thing as true goodness there is only perception.”
― Adalyn Grace, Belladonna