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“Have you ever held a three-year-old by the hand on the way home from preschool?"

"No."

"You're never more important that you are then.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“You have a... remarkable memory."
"I remember everything about you. You're the one who wasn't paying attention.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“The moment our hearts shattered? It belongs to us.”
― Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping

“But you can't kill me, Lord Tyrant. I represent that one thing you've never been able to kill, no matter how hard you try. I am hope.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

“You are whatever you want to be, Wayne. You’re the wind. You’re the stars. You are all endless things.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Lost Metal

“It's exhausting... to pretend you are something- someone- you're not'.

'Then do not spend your life exhausted.”
― Adalyn Grace, Belladonna

“Boats that stay in the harbor are safe, sweetheart, but that's not what boats were built for.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“I knew you’d glow,”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Lost Metal

“Is it possible to outthink yourself?”
― Blake Crouch, Dark Matter

“Hope. Nothing is more intoxicating.”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkdeath

“You should try not to talk so much, friend. You'll sound far less stupid that way.

- Breeze”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

“It kills me sometimes, how people die.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“My dear, dying is nothing to be embarrassed about. It happens to everyone.”
― Rick Riordan, Daughter of the Deep

“As he climbed onto the mare, Thorn's disapproval washed over him.
- It does not seem right to see you ride one of those hornless deer animals.
- Horses. They're called horses, and you know that.
- But it sounds more insulting to call them hornless deer.”
― Christopher Paolini, Murtagh

“God doesn't protect people from knives, sweetheart. That's why God gave us other people, so we can protect each other.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“Because a scar means you survived. It means you’re tough and hard to kill. It means you lived. A scar is something to admire.”
― Christopher Paolini, Murtagh

“Some people accept that they will never be free of their anxiety, they just learn to carry it. She tried to be one of them. She told herself that was why you should always be nice to other people, even idiots, because you never know how heavy their burden is.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“Something my dad says...He says you end up marrying the one you don't understand. Then you spend the rest of your life trying.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“We all live day to day completely oblivious to the fact that we’re a part of a much larger and stranger reality than we can possibly imagine.”
― Blake Crouch, Dark Matter

“Point is," Wayne continued, "we can make fun of you because we like you. That's how it works. Anybody else does it, and we ram a dueling cane up a part of them that I can't mention, 'cuz I'm working on my language.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Lost Metal

“Humans. For the most part, you are dull and blundering. But occasionally, you can be remarkably bright creatures.”
― Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

“Belief?"
"Yes," Sazed said. "Tell me, Mistress. What is it that you believe?"
Vin frowned. "What kind of question is that?"
"The most important kind, I think.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

“He was my echo. Everything I do is quieter now," she said to the other women in the closet.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“With an endless library,” Livira muttered, “if you search long enough, you can find a book that agrees with just about any opinion you have”
― Mark Lawrence, The Book That Wouldn’t Burn

“Shrew, calculator, lunatic, rascal.”
― Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping

“You really don't understand the first thing about writing...for one thing, early in the morning is the worst possible time. the brain is like a wet sponge at that hour. And for another, real writing is a question of staring into space and waiting for the right ideas.”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkdeath

“I penetrated the outer cell membrane with a nanosyringe."
"You poked it with a stick?"
"No!" I said. "Well. Yes. But it was a scientific poke with a very scientific stick.”
― Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary

“When stupid ideas work, they become genius ideas.”
― Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary

“No. You no can die. You are friend.”
― Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary

“you give people two options. They can either respect you or fear you. But don’t let anyone make you question yourself.”
― Alexis Henderson, An Academy for Liars