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“Whatever else Shera lacked, she'd always had her own peculiar sense of responsibility. And while she would shirk a job at the slightest excuse, she never left one half-done.”
― Will Wight, Of Darkness and Dawn

“He (the devil) always sends errors into the world in pairs--pairs of opposites...He relies on your extra dislike of one to draw you gradually into the opposite one. But do not let us be fooled. We have to keep our eyes on the goal and go straight through between both errors. We have no other concern than that with either of them.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Give to a gracious message a host of tongues, but let ill tidings tell themselves when they be felt.”
― William Shakespeare

“Blue never grew tired of feeling particularly needed, but sometimes she wish needed felt less like a synonym for useful.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“She wasn't interested in telling other people's futures. She was interested in going out and finding her own.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“He had spackled confidence too heavily over his anxiety for it to be invisible.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Blue Lily, Lily Blue (The Raven Cycle, #3)

“Whom the Gods wish to destroy, they first call promising.”
― Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise

“Gansey understood on a basic level that Henry made outrageous and offensive fun of himself because the alternative was storming into a room and flipping tables onto the money changers behind him”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven King

“The House is valuable because it is the House. It is enough in and of Itself. It is not the means to an end.”
― Susanna Clarke, Piranesi

“Every morning, he would bring her a boulder and have her try to cut it in half with the Rippling Sword. Every morning, she failed, and he took the stone away, only to bring a new one the next day. She’d thrown her training sword aside in disgust. “I can’t do it,” she had said. “Been waiting for you to say that,” he’d responded. He had taken her to a cave behind a waterfall, where he had kept all of the stones she had tried and failed to cut. There were the marks of her failure: slashes in the rocks where her madra had cut. The scars started faint, but they got wider and deeper. And the stones got bigger. “This is what you did yesterday,” he’d said, pointing to the largest rock, the one with the deepest cut. “I can’t wait to see what you do tomorrow.”
― Will Wight, Ghostwater

“What is a man to do, when God wants him to write one poem, and his creditors another?”
― Siobhan Carroll, For He Can Creep

“There are a million Paths in this world, Lindon, but any sage will tell you they can all be reduced to one. Improve yourself.”
― Will Wight, Unsouled

“Only storms turn fish into dragons,”
― Will Wight, Unsouled

“On the cue 'five aunts' I had given at the knees a trifle, for the thought of being confronted with such a solid gaggle of aunts, even if those of another, was an unnerving one. Reminding myself that in this life it is not aunts that matter, but the courage that one brings to them, I pulled myself together.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, The Mating Season

“The only occupant of the more posh saloon bar was a godlike man in a bowler hat with grave, finely chiselled features and a head that stuck out at the back, indicating great brain power. To cut a long story short, Jeeves.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, The Mating Season

“More power added to a recording of poor poetry simply resulted in louder poor poetry.”
― Scott Warren, The Complete Union Earth Privateers

“There have been men before … who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God himself… as if the good Lord had nothing to do but to exist. There have been some who were so preoccupied with spreading Christianity that they never gave a thought to Christ.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

“We know nothing of religion here: we only think of Christ.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

“A sum can be put right: but only by going back till you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

“Every disease that submits to a cure shall be cured: but we will not call blue yellow to please those who insist on still having jaundice, nor make a midden of the world’s garden for the sake of some who cannot abide the smell of roses.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

“It must have stood thus: die He, or the sinner must, or justice must; and since justice could not, and the Father desired that the sinner should not, then Christ must; and so He did. Oh, miracle of love!”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon

“Christ, the thrice holy God, the pure-hearted man, in Whom there was no sin and could be none, espoused the cause of the wicked. Jesus, whose doctrine makes deadly war on sin, whose Spirit is the destroyer of evil, Whose whole self abhors iniquity, Whose second advent will prove His indignation against transgression, yet undertook the cause of the impious, and even unto death pursued their salvation. The Christ of God, though He had no part or lot in the fall and the sin which has arisen out of it, has died to redeem us from its penalty, and, like the psalmist, He can cry, “Then I restored that which I took not away” (Psa 69:4). Let all holy beings judge whether this is not the miracle of miracles!”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon

“She's the sort of woman who lives for others-you can always tell the others by their hunted expression.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

“The oneness yet triunity of God, the deity and humanity of Christ united in one Person, the everlasting covenant that secures the salvation of all the election of grace, the highway of holiness, and the only path that leads to heaven—are plainly revealed in Old and New Testament alike. The teaching of the prophets concerning the glorious character of God, the changeless requirements of His righteousness, the total depravity of human nature, and the way appointed for restoration
there from—are identical with the Apostles’ teaching.”
― A. W. Pink, Application of the Scriptures: A Refutation of Despensationalism

“The crux of past political utopias is that voluntary participation was never intended. Almost all of the classic utopian ideas are basically totalitarian, starting with Plato and his philosopher kings to Marx’s dictatorship of the proletariat and going right up to the current idea of a Great Transformation because of climate change.7 An enlightened minority gets its way, regardless of whether everyone or anyone else thinks it's a good idea or not. If this minority is replaced by a democratic majority, only the number of people who are being governed against their will changes, not the principle behind the scheme.”
― Titus Gebel, Free Private Cities: Making Governments Compete For You