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“Fear dims when you learn things.”
― Lois Lowry, Son

“I chose to tell myself a different story from the one women are told. I decided I was safe. I was strong. I was brave. Nothing could vanquish me.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

“Take pride in your pain; you are stronger than those who have none”
― Lois Lowry, Gathering Blue

“One misses the sun on a cloudy day without having thought much about the sun when it was shining.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening

“You live. And you throw yourself into everything and try not to think about the bruises.”
― Jojo Moyes, After You

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how well I know. It has no decency, respects no law or convention, shows no mercy. It goes for your weakest spot, which it finds with unnerving ease. It begins in your mind, always ... so you must fight hard to express it. You must fight hard to shine the light of words upon it. Because if you don't, if your fear becomes a wordless darkness that you avoid, perhaps even manage to forget, you open yourself to further attacks of fear because you never truly fought the opponent who defeated you.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

“A person can be lonely even if he is loved by many people, because he is still not the "One and Only" to anyone.”
― Anne Frank, Cliffs Notes on Frank's The Diary of Anne Frank

“I have to thank you...because you have so often helped me forget the evils of today.”
― Francesco Petrarch

“Life without enquiry is not worth living.”
― Socrates

“What if I was never redeemed? What if I already was?”
― Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

“Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
― Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

“My birth was my first misfortune.”
― Jean Jacques Rousseau

“You don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“I've found that there is always some beauty left -- in nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself; these can all help you.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

“Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.”
― Emma Donoghue, Room

“That is the motto women should constantly repeat over and over again. Good for her! Not for me.”
― Amy Poehler, Yes Please

“Sometimes you’re loved because of your weaknesses. What you can’t do is sometimes more compelling than what you can.”
― Melissa Bank, The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing

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

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Don't make it worse by thinking it's more painful than it actually is.”
― John Boyne, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

“It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

“To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

“The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“If you wait until you are perfect and free of conflicts, you will never change anything in the world.”
― Jennifer Baumgardner, Grassroots: A Field Guide for Feminist Activism

“If a hiker gets lost in the mountains, people will coordinate a search. If a train crashes, people will line up to give blood. If an earthquake levels a city, people all over the world will send emergency supplies. This is so fundamentally human that it's found in every culture without exception. Yes, there are assholes who just don't care, but they're massively outnumbered by the people who do.”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

“I borrowed his brightness and used it to see my way, and then gradually, from the habit of looking at the world as he illuminated it, the light in my own mind rekindled.”
― Geraldine Brooks, Year of Wonders

“I try not to live in the past...but...sometimes the past lives in me”
― Jamie Ford, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet