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“I call it howling but it was screaming. Man, dog, horse. With enough hurt we all sound the same.”
― Mark Lawrence, Emperor of Thorns

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“I don't think you can ever fill the empty space with the thing you lost.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“Behold the field in which I grow my fucks. Lay thine eyes upon it and see that it is barren. (anonymous twitter joke referenced in the book)”
― Anonymous, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing

“Humanity is good. Some people are terrible and broken, but humanity is good. I believe that.”
― Hank Green

“You are always a little bit wrong”
― Hank Green

“We are all differently broken, semi-functional, rusted out love machines”
― Hank Green

“The most impactful thing you can do with power is almost always to give it away.”
― Hank Green, A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor

“It turns out, somehow, there are a tremendous number of things to be optimistic about.”
― Hank Green