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“So dawn goes down today... Nothing gold can stay.

-- Robert Frost”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Saying 'I notice you're a nerd' is like saying, 'Hey, I notice that you'd rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you'd rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Lindsay Lohan. Why is that?' In fact, it seems to me that most contemporary insults are pretty lame. Even 'lame' is kind of lame. Saying 'You're lame' is like saying 'You walk with a limp.' Yeah, whatever, so does 50 Cent, and he's done all right for himself.”
― John Green

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“You know the life you have committed yourself to often ends in death.

All life does.

pg 217”
― Lesley Livingston, The Valiant

“Maybe honor wasn't always something won by a blade. I thought. And maybe it couldn't be so easily stripped away, even in servitude.”
― Lesley Livingston, The Valiant

“Myths do not happen all at once.
They do not spring forth whole into the world. They form slowly, rolled between the hands of time until their edges smooth, until the saying of the story gives enough weight to the words—to the memories—to keep them rolling on their own.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Conjuring of Light

“Very little worth knowing is taught by fear.”
― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Apprentice

“See, the problem in this world ain’t sinners, or even the dead. It is men who will step on anyone who stands in the way of their pursuit of power.”
― Justina Ireland, Dread Nation

“It’s a cruel, cruel world. And the people are the worst part.”
― Justina Ireland, Dread Nation

“We’re all puzzle boxes, skeleton and skin, soul and shadow.”
― Seanan McGuire, Beneath the Sugar Sky

“Nothing makes you feel more naked than someone identifying a desire you never knew you possessed.”
― Jeff Zentner, The Serpent King