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“We all have a Monster within; the difference is in degree, not in kind.”
― Douglas Preston, The Monster of Florence

“You better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.”
― Harriet Martineau

“There isn't so much love in the world that you can turn it away when it's offered.”
― Robert Crais

“The human face has limited space. If you fill it with laughter there will be no room for crying.”
― Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance

“Genius is neither learned nor acquired. It is knowing without experience. It is risking without fear of failure…”
― Patricia Polacco

“There is no such thing as bad people. We’re all just people who sometimes do bad things.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“Because pretending to be happy is almost like being happy. Until you remember that you’re only pretending. Then you’re sad. Really sad. Because wearing a mask every day of your life is the hardest thing to do. And after a while, you get a little scared because the mask becomes you.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, Loving Mr. Daniels

“Today may be a very bad day, but tomorrow may be the best day of your life. You just have to hang on until you get there.”
― Mia Sheridan, Grayson's Vow

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“My moments defined me. They took so much and yet returned the same. They destroyed me. But mostly, they created me.”
― Bella Jewel, Fleeting Moments

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

“all children are the same, no matter where they live or the language they speak . . . they all have the enormous capacity for resilience and hope and to give and receive love.”
― Emma Chase, Royally Matched

“You are not your job, you're not how much money you have in the bank. You are not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You are not your fucking khakis. You are all singing, all dancing crap of the world.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“Maybe that’s all life was, this impossibly complicated helix of choice and accident, things you could control and couldn’t. And when the day was done, the only measure of success was how happy you were, how much you loved and were loved.”
― Lisa Unger, The Red Hunter

“Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
― Nicole Williams, Collared

“People will love you. People will hate you. And it always has more to do with them, than it does with you.”
― Leylah Attar, Mists of The Serengeti

“Many people like being alone, but nobody likes to be lonely.”
― Suanne Laqueur, An Exaltation of Larks

“Love does take. Loving someone takes strength. Love takes hard work. And sometimes… Love takes sacrifice. I remember thinking, feeling the only thing worse than being with Drew was being without him.”
― Cambria Hebert, #Junkie

“If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

“Words demand respect. They are beautiful; they are terrible. They are a gift and a curse. I will never forget what they can do.”
― Lynette Noni, Whisper

“Those who sit and follow the rules do not change the world.”
― Delmire Hart, A Demon's Contract

“Being scared isn't the problem. It's not running away that's the hard part.”
― John Connolly, Nocturnes

“[Honey is sweet] and so is knowledge, but knowledge is like the bee that made that sweet honey, you have to chase it through the pages of a book.”
― Patricia Polacco, Thank You, Mr. Falker

“Grampa took Mary Ellen inside away from the crowd. "Now, child, I am going to show you what my father showed me, and his father before," he said quietly.
He spooned the honey onto the cover of one of her books. "Taste," he said, almost in a whisper. . . .
"There is such sweetness inside of that book too!" he said thoughtfully. "Such things...adventure, knowledge and wisdom. But these things do not come easily. You have to pursue them. Just like we ran after the bees to find their tree, so you must also chase these
things through the pages of a book!
”
― Patricia Polacco, The Bee Tree

“You were born with the power to change others. You change people by the way you treat them. That is what changes the human heart.”
― Patricia Polacco

“You don’t always get the treasure by holding on. Sometimes the magic happens when you let go.”
― Leylah Attar, The Paper Swan

“You can either choose love or you can choose hate, because where one lives, the other will die.”
― Leylah Attar, The Paper Swan

“We are sand and rock and water and sky, anchors on ships and sails in the wind. We are a journey to a destination that shifts every time we dream or fall or keep or weep. We are stars with flaws that still sparkle and shine. We always strive, always want, always have more questions than answers, but there are moments like these, full of magic and contentment, when souls get a glimpse of the divine and quite simply, lose their breath.”
― Leylah Attar, The Paper Swan

“So what's it like? To have it all?

Like flying. Soaring. Until you come across the one thing you'd give it all up for, and can never have.”
― Leylah Attar, 53 Letters for My Lover

“In the grand scheme of things, we do the best we can, all of us, and we make up our stories as we go along; we write them and direct them and project them into the world. And sometimes we get other people’s stories, and sometimes we don’t, but always there is a story behind a story behind a story, linked in a chain that we can only see a small part of, because it’s there when we’re born and it continues after we’re gone. And who can comprehend all of it in one lifetime?”
― Leylah Attar, The Paper Swan