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“Bones mend. Regret stays with you forever.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

“All the truth in the world is held in stories.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“No, it’s not always fair. No, it’s not always good. It burns and tears, and there are times when it crushes you beyond recognition. Some people fight against it. Others . . . can’t, though I don’t think they can be blamed for that. Giving up is easy. Picking yourself up isn’t. But we have to believe if we do, we can take another step.”
― T.J. Klune, Under the Whispering Door

“Loneliness, even in a group. Shame and its stalwart companion: those whispers that say you aren’t worthy of attention or love. He understood. Without needing to touch her, he understood.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

“I know, Tojin,” Yumi said. “But he loves you all still; I can see it in him. He cannot change what he did, but he is a good person, trying very hard. You don’t have to forget what he did. But did you ever think that maybe instead of constant wisecracks and snark you could simply…try to understand? On that day, when he was rejected from the Dreamwatch, Painter lost everything. Every hope, every dream. He lost his love of what he did. But I think losing you as his friends was the worst of all.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

“And yesterday he would have killed me to get at his foe. But now we serve each other. Only a fool walks into the future backwards.”
― Terry Goodkind, Stone Of Tears

“I would choose to serve one who bears command as a burden, to one who wears the mantle as a right.”
― Terry Goodkind, Stone Of Tears

“Goddamnit, Donut,”
― Matt Dinniman, The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook

“I was forged in the bowels of this hard world. Sharpened by hate. Strengthened by love.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“Death isn’t empty like you say it is. Emptiness is life without freedom, Darrow. Emptiness is living chained by fear, fear of loss, of death. I say we break those chains. Break the chains of fear and you break the chains that bind us to the Golds, to the Society.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising