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“When you’re young, you can assume that everyone older than you has life figured out. Once you get command yourself, you realize we’re all just the same kids wearing older bodies.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Starsight

“That's what war is," Cobb told me. "A bunch of sorry, desperate fools on both sides, just trying to stay alive. That's the part that those stories you love leave out, isn't it? It's always more convenient when you can fight a dragon. Something you don't have to worry you'll start caring about.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Starsight

“Your past is stone, your future is clay.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Vampire

“It’s just… something being difficult is not a good reason not to do it.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Six Scorched Roses

“Time, Vale,” I said. “Time is the most valuable resource of all, and some of us are perpetually short.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Six Scorched Roses

“We can feel like we have the best of intentions,” he whispers, “and still cause disaster.”
― Sara Raasch, The Nightmare Before Kissmas

“Somebody has to start. Somebody has to step forward and do what is right, because it is right.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

“Sometimes the prize is not worth the costs. The means by which we achieve victory are as important as the victory itself.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

“Life before Death.
Strength before Weakness.
Journey before Destination.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

“Then let the world know that my first act of freedom was to help my friends.”
― Sarah J. Maas, House of Earth and Blood

“That's the point of it, Bryce. Of life. To live, to love, knowing that it might all vanish tomorrow. It makes everything that much more precious.”
― Sarah J. Maas, House of Earth and Blood

“Through love, all is possible.”
― Sarah J. Maas, House of Earth and Blood

“Don’t you understand how condescending it is,” he said, “for someone you love not to tell you about the biggest thing happening in their life, because they don’t want to bother you? Because they think you can’t handle it?” “I just wanted to leave you out of it. Because I do love you. You know that. I’m always saying it.” “That’s not an act of love, Rache. It’s an act of…I don’t know, ambivalence. It’s an act of distance.”
― Caroline O'Donoghue, The Rachel Incident

“You can't force a person to show up, but you can learn a lesson when they don't”
― Emily Henry, Funny Story

“Life’s short enough without us talking ourselves out of hope and trying to dodge every bad feeling. Sometimes you have to push through the discomfort, instead of running.”
― Emily Henry, Funny Story

“we are always expected to plaster a grin on our faces even when we don’t wish to. I used to do it so often, I stopped being able to tell when I was smiling for me or for someone else. So now, I don’t smile unless I’m one hundred percent sure it’s something I want to do, not something someone else wants me to do.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Apprentice to the Villain

“You could not stop times from changing, his mother said, no more than you could stop the surf from rolling.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Sixth of the Dusk

“Y Connor recordó lo que le había dicho Roman una de las primeras noches que habían pasado en Cornell: que era importante saber entablar conversaciones, pero lo más valioso era aprender a mantener silencios. Que eso era lo que diferenciaba a un amigo de un simple conocido, a un amor verdadero de una aventura.”
― Patricia Ibárcena, Hijos dorados

“Things don’t have to stay as what they started out as.”
― Travis Baldree, Legends & Lattes

“The power of fear is in the sum of every small dream reduced to dust.”
― Eva Baltasar, Permafrost