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“I spent my life folded between the pages of books.
In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“Fortune sides with him who dares.”
― Virgil

“Fléctere si néqueo súperos Acheronta movebo - If I cannot move heaven, I will raise hell.”
― Virgil, The Aeneid

“Audaces fortuna iuvat (latin)- Fortune favors the bold.”
― Virgil

“Amor vincit omnia, et nos cedamus amori.
Love conquers all things, so we too shall yield to love.”
― Virgil, Eclogues

“If I cannot move heaven, I will raise hell.”
― Virgil

“Death twitches my ear;
'Live,' he says...
'I'm coming.”
― Virgil

“No day shall erase you from the memory of time”
― Virgil

“The greatest wealth is health”
― Virgil

“They can because they think they can.”
― Virgil

“Let me rage before I die.”
― Virgil, The Aeneid

“Through pain I've learned to comfort suffering men”
― Virgil, The Aeneid

“Each of us bears his own Hell.”
― Virgil

“Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you. ”
― Virgil

“Tu ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito”
― Virgil, The Aeneid

“But the queen--too long she has suffered the pain of love,
hour by hour nursing the wound with her lifeblood,
consumed by the fire buried in her heart. [...]
His looks, his words, they pierce her heart and cling--
no peace, no rest for her body, love will give her none.”
― Virgil, The Aeneid

“Do the gods light this fire in our hearts or does each man's mad desire become his god?”
― Virgil, The Aeneid

“Time is flying never to return.”
― Virgil

“Optima dies...prima fugit
(The best days are the first to flee)”
― Virgil

“No stranger to misfortune myself, I have learned to relieve the sufferings of others.”
― Virgil

“Ah, merciless Love, is there any length to which you cannot force the human heart to go?”
― Virgil, The Aeneid

“A woman is an ever fickle and changeable thing.”
― Virgil

“Friend, have the courage
To care little for wealth, and shape yourself,
You too, to merit godhead.”
― Virgil, The Aeneid

“What good are prayers and shrines to a person mad with love? The flame keeps gnawing into her tender marrow hour by hour, and deep in her heart the silent wound lives on.”
― Virgil, The Aeneid

“et iam nox umida caelo praecipitat suadentque cadentia sidera somnos”
― Vergil, The Aeneid

“What a tale he's told, what a bitter bowl of war he's drunk to the dregs.”
― Virgil, The Aeneid

“We can't all do everything.”
― Virgil