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“This man might be a hunter. But he was mistaken if he believed she was prey.”
― Danielle L. Jensen, The Bridge Kingdom

“It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“Sometimes tears are a gift. They are the words our tongues cannot speak, the gall our bodies cannot expel.”
― Tessa Afshar, Thief of Corinth

“Desire is your lifeblood, and talent is the flower it feeds.”
― Marie Lu, The Kingdom of Back

“When you’re young, you can assume that everyone older than you has life figured out. Once you get command yourself, you realize we’re all just the same kids wearing older bodies.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Starsight

“This is why my betrayal was so terrible. Because you believed me incapable of hurting you, and yet I did.”
― Chloe Gong, These Violent Delights

“To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery. It is to take pride in a victory won by one's comrades. It is to feel, when setting one's stone, that one is contributing to the building of the world.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars

“Fifteen seconds. That’s all it takes to completely change everything about a person. Fifteen.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“People need stories, child. They bring us hope, and that hope is real. If that's the case, what does it matter whether people in them actually lived?”
― Brandon Sanderson, Skyward

“Is anything fair?"
He smiled. "Death is. He treats us all the same.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Skyward

“What had human beings become? Did war make us evil or just activate an evil already lurking within us?”
― Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea

“War had bled color from everything, leaving nothing but a storm of gray.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea

“That is not how love works. It is not blind to faults, nor must it accept the wrongdoing of those dear to us.”
― Julie Klassen, A Castaway in Cornwall

“You can't win a war. Someone else just loses.”
― Alexandra Christo, To Kill a Kingdom

“but who can feel ugly, when their heart feels joy”
― C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces

“No man can be an exile if he remembers that all the world is one city.”
― C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces

“It's always a choice, to do right or wrong, no matter the power.”
― Mindee Arnett, Onyx and Ivory

“It’s the cruelest part of this life, I think, that we don’t get to choose the families and situations we’re born into.”
― Mindee Arnett, Onyx & Ivory

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.”
― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America

“Again it might have been the American tendency in travel. One goes, not so much to see but to tell afterward.”
― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America

“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket – safe, dark, motionless, airless – it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. The alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation. The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, 'What? You too? I thought I was the only one!”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“Heaven may be won, not by the sword, not by human wisdom, but by Faith, Love, and Good Works.”
― Lew Wallace, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

“One must know the problem better than the solution, or the solution becomes the problem.”
― James Dashner, The Fever Code

“When people say impossible, they usually mean improbable.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

“Never before had Corwin fully appreciated the magic of a library, and the magicians who wielded it's power – librarians.”
― Mindee Arnett, Shadow & Flame