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“Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort. Remember Cedric Diggory.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“I would have come for you. And if I couldn't walk, I'd crawl to you, and no matter how broken we were, we'd fight our way out together-knives drawn, pistols blazing. Because that's what we do. We never stop fighting.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death.”
― Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend

“... if you're someone who knows the worst thing can happen at any time, aren't you also someone who knows the best thing can happen at any time too?”
― Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere

“There is no pretending," Jace said with absolute clarity. "I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there is life after that, I'll love you then.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Glass

“Not all those who wander are lost.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
― Dr. Seuss, I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!

“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“Anyone can betray anyone.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen

“The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.”
― H. P. Lovecraft

“You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

“Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”
― A.A. Milne

“Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.”
― Orhan Pamuk, Snow

“You know the greatest lesson of history? It’s that history is whatever the victors say it is. That’s the lesson. Whoever wins, that’s who decides the history. We act in our own self-interest. Of course we do. Name me a person or a nation who does not. The trick is figuring out where your interests are.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“Sharpened by hate. Strengthened by love.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.”
― Aldous Huxley

“You don't mention death when it's hovering near someone you love. You don't want t attract the reaper's attention.”
― Amie Kaufman, These Broken Stars

“Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.”
― Alexander Pope

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

“Can you not understand that liberty is worth more than just ribbons?”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

“Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.”
― Louise Erdrich

“History does not always repeat itself. Sometimes it just yells, 'Can't you remember anything I told you?' and lets fly with a club.”
― John W. Campbell Jr.

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Just because you said dragon demons were extinct—"
"I said mostly extinct."
Alec jabbed a finger toward him.
"Mostly extinct," he said, his voice trembling with rage, "is NOT
EXTINCT ENOUGH."
"I see," said Jace. "I'll just have them change the entry in the demonology textbook from 'almost extinct' to 'not extinct enough for Alec. He prefers his monsters really, really extinct.' Will that make you happy?”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes

“Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”
― Pablo Neruda, Love: Ten Poems

“He’s stuck out there. He thinks he’s totally alone and that we all gave up on him. What kind of effect does that have on a man’s psychology?” He turned back to Venkat. “I wonder what he’s thinking right now.”

LOG ENTRY: SOL 61 How come Aquaman can control whales? They’re mammals! Makes no sense.”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest