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“I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

“All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“Love wins, love always wins.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

“Admire as much as you can. Most people do not admire enough.”
― Vincent van Gogh, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

“Books have souls,’ repeated the cat softly. ‘A cherished book will always have a soul. It will come to its reader’s aid in times of crisis.”
― Sōsuke Natsukawa, The Cat Who Saved Books

“As we count up the memories from one journey, we head off on another. Remembering those who went ahead. Remembering those who will follow after. And someday, we will meet all those people again, out beyond the horizon.”
― Hiro Arikawa, The Travelling Cat Chronicles

“When you see someone putting on his Big Boots, you can be pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

“I am made of memories.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“To get what you want, you have to know exactly how much you are willing to give up.”
― C.S. Pacat, Captive Prince: Volume Two

“Laurent said, ‘Hello, lover.”
― C.S. Pacat, Kings Rising

“A kingdom, or this”
― C.S. Pacat, Kings Rising

“Damen to Jord about Laurent: 'He needs me,' said Damen. 'I don't care if you tell the world.”
― S.U. Pacat, Captive Prince: Volume Two

“He showed me his scars, and in return he let me pretend that I had none.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“I don't know what we're doing. I don't know what this is. I prayed so hard, throughout my time away from here, that I could... be your friend. W-without sin. I thought I had succeeded. And I come back, and with one look from you I am ablaze again.”
― Alex de Campi, The Scottish Boy

“I will always come back to you. Always. Even if I have to drag myself out of the grave to do it.”
― Alex de Campi, The Scottish Boy

“Maybe understanding a language is like understanding the expressions and emotions of other people.”
― Won-pyung Sohn, Almond

“Lastly, and I know it sounds like an excuse, but neither you nor I nor anyone can ever really know whether a story is happy or tragic.”
― Won-pyung Sohn, Almond

“We have such a long way to go," sighed the boy

"Yes, but look how far we've come," said the horse”
― Charlie Mackesy, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

“Kindness is never a mistake," said the Elder Steward. "Somewhere in the heart it is always remembered.”
― C.S. Pacat, Dark Rise

“Imagine how we would be if we were less afraid.”
― Charlie Mackesy, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

“The Beauty of the House is immeasurable; its Kindness infinite.”
― Susanna Clarke, Piranesi

“May your Paths be safe, your Floors unbroken and may the House fill your eyes with Beauty.”
― Susanna Clarke, Piranesi

“Perhaps even people you like and admire immensely can make you see the World in ways you would rather not.”
― Susanna Clarke, Piranesi

“(What is a river but an open throat; what is water but a voice?)”
― Amal El-Mohtar, The River Has Roots

“I know most people try hard
to do good and find out too late
they should have tried softer.”
― Andrea Gibson, You Better Be Lightning

“Good Grief
Let your
heart break

so your spirit
doesn't.”
― Andrea Gibson, You Better Be Lightning

“Well,’ I said, ‘Paris is old, is many centuries. You feel, in Paris, all the time gone by. That isn’t what you feel in New York — ’He was smiling. I stopped.
‘What do you feel in New York?’ he asked.
‘Perhaps you feel,’ I told him, ‘all the time to come. There’s such power there, everything is in such movement. You can’t help wondering—I can’t help wondering—what it will all be like—
many years from now.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

“I was guilty and irritated and full of love and pain. I wanted to kick him and I wanted to take him in my arms.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

“You see?” said Laurent. “He has forgiven me for the small matter of the whip. I have forgiven him for the small matter of killing my brother. All hail the alliance.”
― C.S. Pacat, Kings Rising

“I think if I gave you my heart, you would treat it tenderly.”
― C.S. Pacat, Kings Rising