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“Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.”
― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

“Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bomc,' I said. 'We have a protractor.'
Okay, I'll go home and see if I can scrounge up a ruler and a piece of string.”
― Neal Stephenson, Anathem

“I cannot live without books.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“If I were the rain. . . that binds together the Earth and the sky, whom in all eternity will never mingle. . . Would I be able to bind two hearts together?”
― Tite Kubo, Bleach, Vol. 1

“If you give me wings
I will soar for you

Even if this whole land
Sinks down to the water

If you give me a sword
I will fight for you

Even if this whole sky
Shoots through with your light”
― Tite Kubo

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“Those who do not know what love is
likens it to beauty
Those who claim to know what love is
likens it to ugliness
-Gin Ichimaru”
― Tite Kubo, Bleach, Volume 20

“We should not shed tears
That is a surrender of the body to the heart
It is only proof
That we are beings that do not know
What to do with out hearts”
― Tite Kubo, Bleach, Vol. 1

“If I don't wield the sword,
I can't protect you.

If I keep wielding the sword,
I can't embrace you.
-Ichigo Kurosaki”
― Tite Kubo, Bleach, Volume 05

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“The whole quilt is much more important than any single square. ”
― Rohinton Mistry

“You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair. In the end it’s all a question of balance.”
― Rohinton Mistry

“Wisdom cannot be stolen - it can only be shared.”
― Jefferson Smith, Strange Places

“For you, a thousand times over”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“A leader isn't someone who forces others to make him stronger; a leader is someone willing to give him strength to others so that they may have the strength to stand on their own.”
― Beth Revis, Across the Universe

“Thomas Edison's last words were "It's very beautiful over there". I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

“Reality continues to ruin my life.”
― Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

“This life’s hard, but it’s harder if you’re stupid.”
― George V. Higgins, The Friends of Eddie Coyle

“What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“The town was paper, but the memories were not.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.”
― Walt Disney Company, Mulan

“When you're dodging, you're "afraid of getting hit." When you're attacking, you're "afraid of hitting me." When you're protecting someone, you're "afraid of them dying."

It's pathetic! You can't give into fear in a fight!

When you're dodging, think "I won't let you hit me!" When you're protecting someone, think "I won't let you die!" When you're attacking, think "I will cut you!"
--Urahara Kisuke”
― Tite Kubo, Bleach, Volume 11

“Do you know why the big brother is born first? It’s to protect the little brothers and sisters that come after him. A brother telling his sister, "I’ll kill you"... You never, ever say something like that.”
― Tite Kubo, Bleach, Vol. 1

“Remember this well. There are two kind of fights. As long as we place ourselves in battle, we must always know the difference: fights to defend life… and fights to defend pride…”
― Tite Kubo, Bleach, Vol. 1

“That wasn't very nice...I do believe you killed my hat.
~Kisuke Urahara”
― Tite Kubo

“Those who do not fear the sword they wield have no right to wield a sword at all.
~Shuhei Hisagi”
― Tite Kubo

“Death is not goodbye.”
― Tite Kubo

“When someone changes your world, that's when you know he's important to you.”
― Tite Kubo

“Live a good long life. Grow old and die after I do. And if you can, die laughing.”
― Tite Kubo