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“But who prays for Satan? Who in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most, our one fellow and brother who most needed a friend yet had not a single one, the one sinner among us all who had the highest and clearest right to every Christian's daily and nightly prayers, for the plain and unassailable reason that his was the first and greatest need, he being among sinners the supremest?”
― Mark Twain

“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
― Stephen King

“When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.”
― Arrigo Boito

“You have bewitched me body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you. And wish from this day forth never to be parted from you.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
― Pablo Coelho

“So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.”
― Pablo Coelho

“There will come a poet Whose weapon is His word He will slay you with His tongue" Loneliness. Strength. Joy. You are powerful, but struggle believing it. You think you're not enough. Here's the truth : you are. You sing songs and hope they carry faith, because you have run out if it, and yet you still throw your heart out to the world and hope it makes it through. You convince yourself that pain is art because at least then, you will always have something to create. You are tired of stumbling through life. You dream of a ground you can stand on. One day, you will dance. Your love is where you feel - without fear”
― soldier, poet and king

“There will come a soldier Who carries a mighty sword He will tear your city down" Righteousness. Strength. Violence. You see a door and break through it. You wonder, sometimes, if anger is the only thing you can feel. Remember : love is passion too. You made your own rules and will follow them to death. You try and forget that there is only one rule, and that it is "FIGHT". You are tired of fighting. You try to forget that, too, and keep going. You dream of quiet. Your love is where you heal. God knows you deserve to. (Really. You deserve to.)”
― soldier, poet and king

“You can justify anything if you do it poetically enough”
― L.M Rio

“A tragedy when a mature mind and a romantic heart are in the same body”
― Nizar Qabbani

“What Do I Want? I want to be a mystery, yet be known. I want to be together, yet alone. Is it too much to ask, To be famous yet unknown?”
― Kara Douglas

“Make death proud to take us.”
― William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

“But if the devil were to see you, he would kiss your eyes and repent”
― Farouq Guwaidah

“When people say impossible, they usually mean improbable." With the moonlight gleaming off the lenses of his goggles and with his greatcoat billowing around him, he looked like a complete madman.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

“I think about kissing Magnolia Parks more than I think about anything else, literally in the world. It’s my go-to thought when my mind has a minute to spare.”
― Jessa Hastings, Magnolia Parks

“Memories are funny, don’t you think? Creep up on you, break through the ground of your mind like a weed, even when they don’t have permission to be there.”
― Jessa Hastings, Daisy Haites

“If you keep pushing someone away, eventually they’ll stay there.”
― Jessa Hastings, Daisy Haites

“He laughs and for some reason it sounds like I'm ringing the doorbell of the home I grew up in.”
― Jessa Hastings, Magnolia Parks: The Long Way Home

“But he can't promise he won't hurt me so I don't know how to promise I'll stay.”
― Jessa Hastings, Magnolia Parks: The Long Way Home

“In another life I reckon I could have loved you,' I tell her. She gives me a little smile back. 'In another life I would have let you-' Never you mind that I already love her in this one.”
― Jessa Hastings, Daisy Haites: The Great Undoing

“You're Central Park at midnight.”
― Jessa Hastings, Daisy Haites: The Great Undoing

“Daisy’s that feeling you get when you’re floating on your back in a pool and there’s so much fucking noise around you until you put your ears under and it all goes quiet. That’s how she feels to me.”
― Jessa Hastings, Daisy Haites

“Calm water doesn’t need more water—you need wind to move your sail.”
― Sophie Lark, Brutal Prince

“Everything seems better in a memory.”
― Renee Carlino, Before We Were Strangers

“Poetry is just evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.”
― Renee Carlino, Before We Were Strangers

“It was like the universe was teasing us; we saw each other just a second too late.”
― Renee Carlino, Before We Were Strangers

“We were victims of bad timing. But here we are again.”
― Renee Carlino, Before We Were Strangers

“Weren’t we though? Timeless? Nothing could change what we’d had all those years before, even if the idea of what might’ve been lingered between us.”
― Renee Carlino, Before We Were Strangers

“Just because I'm a gentleman, Penelope, doesn't always mean I'm a gentle man”
― Somme Sketcher, Sinners Condemned