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“Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write.”
― Elie Wiesel

“If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.”
― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

“You have to try. You have to take your chances. Go and attempt and see what happens. And even if you fail - especially if you fail - come back with your experience and your hard-won knowledge and a story you can tell. And then later you can say, without regret or hesitation... 'Once, I dared to dare greatly”
― Morgan Matson, The Unexpected Everything

“We have big, beautiful brains. We invent things that fly. Fly. We write poetry. You probably hate poetry, but it’s hard to argue with ‘Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate’ in terms of sheer beauty. We are capable of big lives. A big history. Why settle? Why choose the practical thing, the mundane thing? We are born to dream and make the things we dream about.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun is Also a Star

“There are melodies that speak as eloquently as words, that flow logically and inevitably from a single, pure emotion.”
― Rachel Hartman, Seraphina

“Sometimes the most beautiful moments in our lives are things that hurt badly at the time. We only see them for what they really were when we stand at the very end and look back.”
― Emily Henry, The Love That Split the World

“And we are quotation marks, inverted and upside down, clinging to one another at the end of this life sentence. Trapped by lives we did not choose.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“Think higher, feel deeper.”
― Elie Wiesel

“I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.”
― Alice Roosevelt Longworth

“I think you’re a fairy tale. I think you’re magical, and brave, and exquisite. And I hope you'll let me be in your story.”
― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer