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  • #1
    George Orwell
    “Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
    George Orwell, 1984

  • #2
    George Orwell
    “The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.”
    George Orwell, 1984

  • #3
    George Orwell
    “Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.”
    George Orwell, 1984

  • #4
    Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
    “If light is scarce then light is scarce; we will immerse ourselves in the darkness and there discover its own particular beauty.”
    Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, In Praise of Shadows

  • #5
    Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
    “The quality that we call beauty ... must always grow from the realities of life.”
    Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, In Praise of Shadows

  • #6
    Ai Yazawa
    “People are only what they think of themselves.”
    Ai Yazawa, Nana, Vol. 1

  • #7
    Ai Yazawa
    “We are all farsighted, we give importance to those things that are far from us, while neglecting the things that are close to us... only to realize their value later when they are out-of-reach again...”
    Ai Yazawa, Nana, Vol. 1

  • #8
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

  • #9
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “What do you fear, lady?" [Aragorn] asked.
    "A cage," [Éowyn] said. "To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

  • #10
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
    tags: war

  • #11
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “His grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

  • #12
    Margaret Atwood
    “Nature is to zoos as God is to churches.”
    Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake

  • #13
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Not all those who wander are lost.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #14
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
    "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #15
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #16
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #17
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #18
    Margaret Atwood
    “You can forget who you are if you're alone too much.”
    Margaret Atwood, The Year of the Flood

  • #19
    Sarah J. Maas
    “You could rattle the stars," she whispered. "You could do anything, if only you dared. And deep down, you know it, too. That’s what scares you most.”
    Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

  • #20
    Sarah J. Maas
    “No. I can survive well enough on my own— if given the proper reading material.”
    Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

  • #21
    Sarah J. Maas
    “I name you Elentiya." She kissed the assassin's brow. "I give you this name to use with honour, to use when other names grow too heavy. I name you Elentiya, 'Spirit That Could Not Be Broken.”
    Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

  • #22
    Mark  Lawrence
    “Memories are dangerous things. You turn them over and over, until you know every touch and corner, but still you'll find an edge to cut you.”
    Mark Lawrence, Prince of Thorns

  • #23
    Mark  Lawrence
    “There’s something brittle in me that will break before it bends.”
    Mark Lawrence, Prince of Thorns

  • #24
    Mark  Lawrence
    “The biggest lies we save for ourselves.”
    Mark Lawrence, Prince of Thorns

  • #25
    Mark  Lawrence
    “I’ll tell you now. That silence almost beat me. It’s the silence that scares me. It’s the blank page on which I can write my own fears. The spirits of the dead have nothing on it. The dead one tried to show me hell, but it was a pale imitation of the horror I can paint on the darkness in a quiet moment.”
    Mark Lawrence, Prince of Thorns

  • #26
    Mark  Lawrence
    “Most men have at least one redeeming feature. Finding one for Brother Rike requires a stretch. Is 'big' a redeeming feature?”
    Mark Lawrence, Prince of Thorns

  • #27
    Mark  Lawrence
    “They say that time is a great teacher but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.”
    Mark Lawrence, King of Thorns

  • #28
    Mark  Lawrence
    “No half measures. Some things can’t be cut in half. You can’t half-love someone. You can’t half-betray, or half-lie.”
    Mark Lawrence, Emperor of Thorns

  • #29
    Mark  Lawrence
    “There's a slope down toward evil, a gentle gradient that can be ignored at each step, unfelt. It's not until you look back, see the distant heights where you once lived, that you understand your journey.”
    Mark Lawrence, Emperor of Thorns

  • #30
    Mark  Lawrence
    “Every man has his thorns, not of him, but in him, deep as bones.”
    Mark Lawrence, Emperor of Thorns



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