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“Find whatever love is left in your life and hold on to it tightly. And one day, things will have gotten less gray, less dull.”
― Sierra Simone, Priest

“When you've lived as long as I have, you learn not to question these things. Some feelings transcend logic.”
― Katee Robert, Sacrifice

“Life is challenging enough without putting qualifiers on happiness. It passes, just like fear and anger and horror pass. Enjoy the feeling while we have it.”
― Katee Robert, Heir

“What do you fear, lady?" [Aragorn] asked.
"A cage," [Éowyn] said. "To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

“Life is but a dream, and death is returning home.”
― June C.L. Tan, Jade Fire Gold

“I had always thought life was a road, twisting and turning with the vagaries of fate. Luck and opportunity, gifts beyond our control. As I gazed across the endless night, it dawned on me then, that our paths were forged from the choices we made. Whether to reach for an opportunity or to let it pass by. To be swept up with changed or to hold your ground.”
― Sue Lynn Tan, Daughter of the Moon Goddess

“The problem with knowledge, is its inexhaustible craving. the more of it you have, the less you feel you know”
― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Six

“Really, there was nothing more dangerous than a woman who knew her own worth.”
― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Six

“A flaw of humanity,” said Parisa, shrugging. “The compulsion to be unique, which is at war with the desire to belong to a single identifiable sameness.”
― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Six

“A beginning often signals an end. That's the thing with dawn... you must first get through the night.”
― Juno Dawson, Her Majesty's Royal Coven

“There are spells for breaking and spells for mending, but there are no spells for forgetting.”
― Adrienne Young, Spells for Forgetting

“What no one tells you is that the road to accomplishing your goals isn’t a straight line; it looks more like a corn maze. You stopped, you went, you backed up, and took a few wrong turns along the way, but the important thing you had to remember was that there was an exit. Somewhere.”
― Mariana Zapata, The Wall of Winnipeg and Me

“Home is where you are. I would go anywhere for you if you wanted me there.”
― Mariana Zapata , The Wall of Winnipeg and Me

“Almost all grown adults walk around full of regret over a good-bye they wish they’d been able to go back and say better.”
― Fredrik Backman, And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer

“When you make someone fall in love with the darkest parts of you, there’s nothing you can do that will scare them away. They will be yours forever because they already love all the fucked up bits and pieces of you.”
― H.D. Carlton, Haunting Adeline

“Why don't you introduce me to the new man in my life?"
"He's going to be a lot of work, Billie."
"Of course, he is, Hank. Men always are.”
― Elsie Silver, Off to the Races

“Do you remember what it was to be young?" She asked. "Every trouble would be solved by sundown, and every dawn you'd have a new chance to remake the world.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Beautiful Ones

“You don’t get to live your dreams by waiting around for someone to hand them to you.”
― Mariana Zapata, Kulti

“I swear to God, you’re a fucking puzzle I thought was all in the box, but every damn day I find a piece or two hidden all over the place.”
― Mariana Zapata, Luna and the Lie

“You gave me these pieces of you I know you haven’t given to anybody else, and they’re mine. You can’t take ’em back. I need them more than you do, you hear me?”
― Mariana Zapata, Luna and the Lie

“All I could think about as I stood there was that sometimes life gave you a tragedy that burned everything you knew to the ground and changed you completely. But somehow, if you really wanted to, you could learn how to hold your breath as you made your way through the smoke left in its wake and you could keep going. And sometimes, sometimes, you could grow something beautiful from the ashes that were left behind. If you were lucky.”
― Mariana Zapata, Wait for It

“There was a lot of things about love that you could only learn after you’d faced the real kind. The best kind wasn’t this soft, sweet thing of hearts and picnics. It wasn’t flowery and divine. Real love was gritty. The real kind of love never quit. Someone who loved you would do what’s best for you; they’d stand up for you and sacrifice. Someone who loved you would face any inconvenience willingly. You didn’t know what love was until someone was willing to give up what they loved the most for you. But it was also never letting them make that choice, either.”
― Mariana Zapata, Wait for It

“You can’t always wait for someone else to do the right thing when you can do it yourself.”
― Mariana Zapata, Wait for It

“You know it’s okay, right? For someone to see the best in you. For them to like the things you’re way too hard on yourself for.”
― Chloe Liese, Two Wrongs Make a Right

“Let the dead die, Tamsy," he told me once "It's only memory that truly pains us, and they release it when they go.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Silver in the Bone

“Don’t take your mind for granted, Griffin. Or your heart. They are your gifts. And they are not guaranteed from one day to the next.”
― Devney Perry, Indigo Ridge

“That's just what translation is, I think. That's all speaking is. Listening to the other and trying to see past your own biases to glimpse what they're trying to say. Showing yourself to the world, and hoping someone else understands.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

“Our past is a shadow that follows us. For better or worse, it shapes us, and sometimes it controls us.”
― Mary E. Pearson, The Courting of Bristol Keats

“We show the people we love the ugliest parts of ourselves, and we tell them the truth even when it hurts, because that’s what intimacy is.”
― Ivy Fairbanks, Morbidly Yours

“But all we can control is how we choose to move through life. With honesty. With bravery. With love. I know you can do it.”
― Ivy Fairbanks, Morbidly Yours