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“You are who you are, whether you like it or not, so why not like it?”
― Sarah Addison Allen, Garden Spells

“Life is about experience... You can't hold on to everything”
― Sarah Addison Allen, Garden Spells

“When you have to do something, you have to do it. Putting it off only makes it worse. Believe me, I know.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, Garden Spells

“When you know something’s wrong, but you don’t know exactly what it is, the air around you changes.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, Garden Spells

“The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“People see what they wish to see. And in most cases, what they are told that they see.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“Secrets have power. And that power diminishes when they are shared, so they are best kept and kept well. Sharing secrets, real secrets, important ones, with even one other person, will change them. Writing them down is worse, because who can tell how many eyes might see them inscribed on paper, no matter how careful you might be with it. So it's really best to keep your secrets when you have them, for their own good, as well as yours.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“Life takes us to unexpected places sometimes. The future is never set in stone, remember that.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“We lead strange lives, chasing our dreams around from place to place.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“But dreams have ways of turning into nightmares.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“People don’t pay much attention to anything unless you give them reason to”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“I think looking forward will be better than looking back.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“Because I do not wish to know,” he says. “I prefer to remain unenlightened, to better appreciate the dark.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“And there are never really endings, happy or otherwise. Things keep going on, they overlap and blur, your story is part of your sister's story is part of many other stories, and there is no telling where any of them may lead.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“We must put effort and energy into anything we wish to change.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“He reads histories and mythologies and fairy tales, wondering why it seems that only girls are ever swept away from their mundane lives on farms by knights or princes or wolves. It strikes him as unfair to not have the same fanciful opportunity himself. And he is not in the position to do any rescuing of his own.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“You prefer not to see the gears of the clock, as to better tell time.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“You need to understand your limitations so you can overcome them.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?”
― Garth Nix, Sabriel

“Fear and realisation of ignorance, strong medicines against stupid pride.”
― Garth Nix, Sabriel

“Let this be my final lesson. Everyone and everything has a time to die.”
― Garth Nix, Sabriel

“We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

“Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

“It must require bravery to be honest all the time.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

“When you're happy for yourself, it fills you. When you're happy for someone else, it pours over. It was almost too bright to watch.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, Garden Spells

“It was a surprise, and a delight, to see children devour books. Without ever knowing it, they were receiving an education.”
― Pat Frank, Alas, Babylon

“Out of death, life; an immutable truth”
― Pat Frank, Alas, Babylon

“We speak of stories ending, when in truth it is we who end. The stories go on and on.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Avatar

“Truly, it is in loss that we learn a thing's true value.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Avatar

“What is fear but courage's shadow?”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Avatar