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    Tamora Pierce
    “You are the Protector of the Small. You see real people in the humans and animals overlooked by your peers. There will always be work for you.”
    Tamora Pierce, Lady Knight

  • #2
    Leonardo da Vinci
    “A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.”
    Leonardo da Vinci

  • #3
    Clive Barker
    “Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.”
    Clive Barker, Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War

  • #4
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

  • #5
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.”
    Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

  • #6
    Salman Rushdie
    “I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me. I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I'm gone which would not have happened if I had not come.”
    Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children

  • #7
    Alix E. Harrow
    “Cats, I have found, seem to exist in more or less the same form in every world; it is my belief that they have been slipping in and out of doors for several thousand years. Anyone familiar with house cats will know this is a particular hobby of theirs.”
    Alix E. Harrow, The Ten Thousand Doors of January

  • #8
    Alix E. Harrow
    “I hope to every god you have the guts to do what needs doing. I hope you will find the cracks in the world and wedge them wider, so the light of other suns shines through. I hope you will keep the world unruly, messy, full of strange magics. I hope you will run through every open Door, and tell stories when you return.”
    Alix E. Harrow, The Ten Thousand Doors of January

  • #9
    Alexander Pushkin
    “A magic moment I remember:
    I raised my eyes and you were there,
    A fleeting vision, the quintessence
    Of all that's beautiful and rare
    I pray to mute despair and anguish,
    To vain the pursuits world esteems,
    Long did I hear your soothing accents,
    Long did your features haunt my dreams.
    Time passed. A rebel storm-blast scattered
    The reveries that once were mine
    And I forgot your soothing accents,
    Your features gracefully divine.
    In dark days of enforced retirement
    I gazed upon grey skies above
    With no ideals to inspire me
    No one to cry for, live for, love.
    Then came a moment of reinessance,
    I looked up - you again are there
    A fleeting vision, the quintessence
    Of all that's beautiful and rare

    – Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin, “A Magic Moment I Remember,” The Poetry of Alexander Sergeyevich (Portable Poetgry, January 27th 2014) Originally published 1821”
    Alexander Pushkin

  • #10
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #11
    L.M. Montgomery
    “Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”
    L.M. Montgomery

  • #12
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Write it on your heart
    that every day is the best day in the year.
    He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day
    who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.

    Finish every day and be done with it.
    You have done what you could.
    Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt crept in.
    Forget them as soon as you can, tomorrow is a new day;
    begin it well and serenely, with too high a spirit
    to be cumbered with your old nonsense.

    This new day is too dear,
    with its hopes and invitations,
    to waste a moment on the yesterdays.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson, Collected Poems and Translations

  • #13
    Andrew  Boyd
    “Compassion hurts. When you feel connected to everything, you also feel responsible for everything. And you cannot turn away. Your destiny is bound with the destinies of others. You must either learn to carry the Universe or be crushed by it. You must grow strong enough to love the world, yet empty enough to sit down at the same table with its worst horrors.”
    Andrew Boyd, Daily Afflictions: The Agony of Being Connected to Everything in the Universe

  • #14
    T.S. Eliot
    “For last year's words belong to last year's language
    And next year's words await another voice.
    And to make an end is to make a beginning."

    (Little Gidding)”
    T.S. Eliot

  • #15
    Frances Hodgson Burnett
    “At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done--then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.”
    Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

  • #16
    Arnold Bennett
    “The chief beauty about time
    is that you cannot waste it in advance.
    The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you,
    as perfect, as unspoiled,
    as if you had never wasted or misapplied
    a single moment in all your life.
    You can turn over a new leaf every hour
    if you choose.”
    Arnold Bennett

  • #17
    Colette
    “It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses. ”
    Colette

  • #18
    William Shakespeare
    “Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.”
    William Shakespeare, Macbeth

  • #19
    Haruki Murakami
    “Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
    haruki murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

  • #20
    Haruki Murakami
    “If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.”
    Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

  • #21
    Haruki Murakami
    “She waited for the train to pass. Then she said, "I sometimes think that people’s hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what’s at the bottom. All you can do is imagine by what comes floating to the surface every once in a while.”
    Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

  • #22
    Haruki Murakami
    “I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.”
    Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

  • #23
    Haruki Murakami
    “Such wounds to the heart will probably never heal. But we cannot simply sit and stare at our wounds forever.”
    Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

  • #24
    Haruki Murakami
    “What a terrible thing it is to wound someone you really care for--and to do it so unconsciously.”
    Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

  • #25
    Maia Toll
    “What if you are holy, just as you are? What if you don’t need to be more “spiritual,” more kind, more anything?”
    Maia Toll, The Illustrated Herbiary: Guidance and Rituals from 36 Bewitching Botanicals

  • #26
    Maia Toll
    “An object is just an object until you - or someone else - infuses it with meaning and energy.”
    Maia Toll

  • #27
    Jennifer Elisabeth
    “I look out into the water and up deep into the stars. I beg the sparkling lanterns of light to cure me of myself — my past and the kaleidoscope of mistakes, failures and wrong turns that have stacked unbearable regret upon my shoulders.”
    Jennifer Elisabeth, Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl

  • #28
    Tarang Sinha
    “To greet a lovely morning, we must leave the night behind.”
    Tarang Sinha, We Will Meet Again...

  • #29
    Tamora Pierce
    “You turned into a hero when I wasn't watching.”
    Tamora Pierce, Lioness Rampant

  • #30
    Tamora Pierce
    “He was overconfident”, she told him. “And I won so the gods must have thought I was right. Otherwise they’d have made me lose. You know how trial by combat works.”
    “You won because you were good” he corrected her. “I find it hard to believe the gods sit forever about the Divine Realms betting on jousts and trials by combat.”
    Tamora Pierce, Squire



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