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“Before you sleep, read something that is exquisite, and worth remembering.”
― Desiderius Erasmus

“Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful!' and sitting in the shade.”
― Rudyard Kipling, Complete Verse

“There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break.”
― William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew

“If you could explain something perfectly, then you’d never need art.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

“Not being able to think of a reply is not the same thing as accepting another's words.”
― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Quest

“Anybody can become angry — that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way — that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.”
― Aristotle

“Strangers had small interest in hurting you. That was always done best by your own family and friends.”
― Robin Hobb, Ship of Destiny

“Like flies in amber, like corpses frozen in ice, that which according to the laws of nature should pass away is, by the miracle of ink on paper, preserved. It is a kind of magic. As one tends the graves of the dead, so I tend the books. And every day I open a volume or two, read a few lines or pages, allow the voices of the forgotten dead to resonate inside my head.”
― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

“If the enemy can isolate us, he can influence us.”
― Lysa TerKeurst, It's Not Supposed to Be This Way: Finding Unexpected Strength When Disappointments Leave You Shattered

“If the enemy can isolate us, he can influence us. And his favorite entry point of all is through our disappointments”
― Lysa TerKeurst, It's Not Supposed to Be This Way: Finding Unexpected Strength When Disappointments Leave You Shattered

“There are times in life when people must know when not to let go. Balloons are designed to teach small children this.”
― Terry Pratchett

“Despite my pain, I felt not the regret of an ending, but the foreboding of a beginning.”
― Robin Hobb, Fool's Errand

“Aziraphale collected books. If he were totally honest with himself he would have to have admitted that his bookshop was simply somewhere to store them. He was not unusual in this. In order to maintain his cover as a typical second-hand book seller, he used every means short of actual physical violence to prevent customers from making a purchase. Unpleasant damp smells, glowering looks, erratic opening hours - he was incredibly good at it.”
― Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

“Coffee is a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to your older self.”
― Terry Pratchett, Thud!

“It does not matter how small the sins are provided that their cumulative effect is to edge the man away from the Light and out into the Nothing. Murder is no better than cards if cards can do the trick. Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one--the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

“What if the worst parts of your life are actually gateways to the very best parts you’d never want to do without?”
― Lysa TerKeurst, It's Not Supposed to Be This Way: Finding Unexpected Strength When Disappointments Leave You Shattered

“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell

“This book was written using 100% recycled words.”
― Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters

“Making art provides uncomfortably accurate feedback about the gap that inevitably exists between what you intended to do, and what you did.”
― Lysa TerKeurst, It's Not Supposed to Be This Way: Finding Unexpected Strength When Disappointments Leave You Shattered

“God loves me too much to answer my prayers at any other time than the right time and in any other way than the right way.”
― Lysa TerKeurst, It's Not Supposed to Be This Way: Finding Unexpected Strength When Disappointments Leave You Shattered

“The burned hand teaches best. After that, advice about fire goes to the heart.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours. ”
― Voltaire

“The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

“There are three kinds of people in the world: people who can't believe anything, suckers who believe everything, and a few of us who can face the truth.”
― Larry Correia, Monster Hunter International

“There always seemed to be a better way, except when it came to people. Once broken, people couldn't be repaired.”
― Michael J. Sullivan, Age of Swords

“Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.”
― Voltaire

“The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“I am not in favour of this modern mania for turning bad people into good people at a moment's notice.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons